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The ESDSWG is comprised of four distinct working groups organized around key technology and information system issues; technology infusion, standards processes, software reuse, and data system user and system metrics. Each Working Group functions independently establishing their own work plans on germane data system issues and topics. The ESDSWG members are drawn from a broad range of NASA-funded science and technology projects, NASA information technology experts, affiliated contractor staff, and other interested community members from academia and industry.

NASA Earth Science data systems are faced with a new set of challenges

Among those challenges are:

• Enabling flexibility within data systems to adapt to new data stream(s) or to changes in current processing streams.
• Assuring products flowing from processing streams meet the needs of the focus area science teams - scientists working in conjunction with data systems experts, and in consultation with their communities.
• Identifying and creating interfaces that facilitate the flow of data to modeling efforts (e.g. carbon assimilation) - one size does not fit all.
• Enabling seamless hooks into data mining and high performance computing environments.
• Evolving from past instrument-focused processing systems to measurement oriented data systems within an interoperable framework that will help guide the flow of information and services; improve performance and access; be measurement focused; and be distributed geographically and logically.

Both established and future data systems must be able to support this new era. This work uses the lessons learned from existing systems and from recent formulation studies to meet these challenges.

Go to the NASA GSFC Working Groups Page for information.