Earth Science Software Reuse

Welcome to the Earth Science Data System (ESDS) Software Reuse Portal. Please visit the ESDS Working Group Page for more information about our group.

We have posted some reuse definitions about what the Working Group does and does not consider reuse in our Resources, Library section, along with a brochure about our group and its activities. A number of bottom-up reuse guidelines are now available in the Resources, Guideline Documents section. We have also added a technology transfer guideline and technology transfer FAQ to help explain NASA's technology transfer process in the same section of the site. Some of our more recent publications have been added to the Resources, Library, Publications section, the latest of which are our DSADR paper discussing some of the WG's major activities, presented at a workshop during the ICSR (here are the DSADR slides used for the presentation), and our 2008 IGARSS paper about the current state of our Reuse Readiness Level work. The S4PM case study and the SOSE case study have been added to the Resources, Library, Case Studies section. A few new non-NASA funding links are on our Funding Opportunities page. Materials presented at the 6th ESDS WG Meeting in October 2007 are now available, including some early work on drafting Reuse Readiness Levels (RRLs). The slides used for our discussion of RRLs at the 2008 Winter ESIP Meeting are now available in the Resources, Events, Event Highlights section. Our full list of upcoming events is also in the Resources section, and we have added a list of some awards that are relevant to reuse projects in a new folder in the Resources section, including a new peer-recognition award developed by the WG.

We have completed our survey to better understand the practice of software reuse within the Earth Science community. Preliminary survey findings are available on the web and have been published in a 2006 IGARSS paper. We have also posted some of our documents related to our proposed Reuse Enablement System (RES) in a new folder under the Resources section. Our trade study of existing systems, use cases for the proposed RES, and requirements for the proposed RES are currently available.

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