Organization:
Research Title: Earth Observation System Data and Information System (EOSDIS)
Funding Level (millions of dollars):
| FY94 | 194.2 |
|---|---|
| FY95 | 220.6 |
| FY96 | 241.2 |
Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (CENR) Component:
(a) Subcommittee: Global Change Research Subcommittee (100%)
Task Group on Data and Information Management
(b) Environmental Issue: Climate change (20%) Natural Variability (20%)
Large-scale
changes in land-use (20%), Large-scale changes in ocean ecosystems (20%) Global
changes (20%)
(c) Research Activity: Data Management (100%)
Organizational Components:
Operations, Data and Information Systems Division
Office of Mission To Planet Earth, Code YD
Washington, DC 20546
Point of Contact:
Dixon Butler
Phone: 202-358-0256
Research Goals:
The goal of the EOSDIS program is to make global change data and information
easily
available to global change researcher and other users. Like all data and computing
capabilities, EOSDIS is not an end in itself but a means to facilitate the research.
As such,
the key to success for EOSDIS and the policy framework which accompanies it is to
respond to the needs of the large user community and to encourage cooperation.
Research Description:
EOSDIS is one of NASA's contributions to the national interagency Global Change
Data
and Information System (GCDIS) for the archive and distribution of data and
information
related to Earth and how it is changing. EOSDIS is itself being developed as a
distributive
system, in response to the requirements of global change researchers and earth
system
scientist. The open architecture of EOSDIS facilitates interaction with similar
data systems of other agencies and countries. NASA's EOSDIS activities concentrate
on improved availability and use of existing data sets within the initial years,
in advance of receipt of larger capabilities required to handle data flow from the
full suite of EOS instruments which will be at an average rate exceeding 2 megabytes
per second (roughly equivalent to 250
million pages of a text book a day). Additionally, EOSDIS includes the elements
of EOS flight system planning and ground operations.
Program Interfaces:
The program is vital to scientist around the world doing global change research.
It is
coordinated with other federal agency global change information systems through
the
Committee on Earth and Natural Resources (Committee on Environment and
Natural Resources (CENR)) Subcommittee on Global Change
Research (SGCR) and international coordination through the Committee on Earth
Observation Satellites (CEOS).
Program Milestones:
The first release of EOSDIS Version 0 was July, 1994. PDR is December, 1994 and
CDR
will be Mid 1995 with Version 1 released in December 1996 to allow a period of use
and
comment.
Policy Payoffs:
A better understanding of the extent, causes, and regional consequences of global
change.