| Title | Excerpt |
|---|---|
| ECS: A Brief Overview | "EOS instrument and interdisciplinary teams are creating new science products and interdisciplinary results that will transcend limitations of current remote sensing data. EOSDIS will acquire and assemble a global database of remote sensing measurements that will significantly enhance global change research. The calibration of EOS data will allow long time series to be constructed from multiple time periods. ..." |
| Commercial Applications of MTPE/EOS Data | " This material is currently under scientific peer review and should be considered preliminary. In the process of constructing the matrices, the authors have attempted to identify all reasonable applications of the MTPE/EOS data, including experimental applications whose ultimate feasibility has not been determined. In particular, the authors have not included EOSDIS limitations on the timeliness of data/information delivery and have considered some applications that may be considered operational in nature. ..." |
| ECS Architecture | " As the centerpiece of NASA's Mission To Planet Earth (MTPE), the Earth Observing System (EOS) will herald an unprecedented era of multi-disciplinary research to study the processes leading to global change. A constellation of remote-sensing satellites will scan the Earth for several years sending back hundreds of gigabytes of valuable data every day by the middle of 1999. ..." |
| Science User's Guide to the ECS Development Process | " During the last series of User Working Group meetings, a recurring theme was the lack of understanding about the Earth Observing System (EOS) Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Core System (ECS) by the EOS science community. We heard there are too many acronyms, too many engineering documents, and too few summaries suitable for end users. So we organized an effort to try to summarize selected ECS material. ..." |
| Data Provider Options with the EOS Data and Information System | " The EOS Data and Information System being developed by NASA to support interdisciplinary Earth science research into the 21st century, will do more than manage and distribute data from EOS-era satellites. It will also enable the exchange of data, tools, and research results across disciplinary, agency, and national boundaries. This paper describes the options that providers of Earth science data and services will have for interacting with the EOSDIS Core System (ECS). ..." |
| IEEE Metadata Workshop Papers | "The EOSDIS Core System science office and data engineering team presented a series of papers detailing the ECS data model and selected metadata issues at a recent IEEE metadata conference ..." |
| ECS Acronym Glossary |
" AALE adjusted annual loss expectancy, AAP advanced archival products, AATSR Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (ESA), ABL allocated baseline, AC alternating current ..." |