Heritage

Standards in use by NASA Earth Science Data Systems prior to the start of the ES Data Systems SPG. Click on the "EOSDIS Standards Summary" link to start.

EOSDIS Standards Summary — by admin — last modified 2007-12-11 08:30

A list of some of the major areas of standards in Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) at NASA.

Responses to Standards Question — by admin — last modified 2006-01-20 13:59

To start the Standards Process, the SPG invited the Earth Science Data community to identify interfaces that would benefit from standardization. This document lists the responses gathered. Contents are taken directly from the original responses.

GCMD DIF — by admin — last modified 2006-01-20 13:59

Global Change Master Directory, Directory Interchange Format for Datasets (GCMD DIF) * (for all NASA ESE products)

EOSDIS Core System Data Model — by admin — last modified 2006-01-20 13:59

EOSDIS Core System - Science Metadata Model for Earth Science Data Types (ECS ESDT Data Model) * (for EOS standard products)

FGDC CSDGM — by admin — last modified 2006-01-20 13:59

Federal Geographic Data Committee - Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (FGDC Content Standard) * (via ECS, ECHO, or GCMD+)

EOS Clearinghouse — by admin — last modified 2006-01-20 13:59

EOS Clearinghouse Data Provider Science Data Model (ECHO Ingest Data Model )

HDF and HDF-EOS Profile — by admin — last modified 2006-01-20 13:59

Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) (including the HDF-EOS profile of HDF) * (for Earth Observing System standard products)

netCDF — by admin — last modified 2006-01-20 13:59

Network Common Data Format (netCDF) (for Topex/Poseidon data products and others)

GeoTIFF — by admin — last modified 2006-01-20 13:59

Geographic Tagged Image File Format (GeoTIFF) (for distributing Landsat-7 data products and other land raster imagery)

Landsat 7 Fast Format — by admin — last modified 2006-01-20 13:59

Fast Format (for distributing Landsat-7 data products)

WMO BUFR — by admin — last modified 2006-01-20 13:59

World Meteorological Organization Binary Universal Format for Representation (BUFR) (for distributing SeaWinds data products)

EOSDIS V0 — by admin — last modified 2006-01-20 13:59

EOSDIS Version 0 Information Management System Protocol

ANSI Z39.50 — by admin — last modified 2006-01-20 13:59

American National Standards Institute (ANSI/ISO Z39.50) and its profiles (including GILS, GEO and CIP profiles)

OPeNDAP — by admin — last modified 2006-01-20 13:59

OPen-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (OPeNDAP)

EOSDIS Guide — by admin — last modified 2006-01-20 13:59

EOSDIS Guide document standard for product collecitons in EOSDIS Version 0 and the EOSDIS Core System.

FGDC NVCI — by admin — last modified 2006-01-20 13:59

National Vegetation Classification and Information Standards approved by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (NVCI/FGDC)