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The Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) plays a major role in enabling scientific research by providing scientific data and data support to the general remote sensing community. Several GES DISC DAAC Data Support Teams provide expert assistance to users in accessing data, including information on visualization tools and documentation for data products. To provide easy access, processing and visualization of the science data, the data support teams have additionally developed many desktop and online tools. In the early days of the Terra satellite’s mission, the available tools were not able to meet the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument’s data validation and processing requirements for the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF)-Earth Observing System (HDF-EOS) data format. The MODIS Data Support Team’s (MDST) goal was to unify the strengths of the current tools and add new features in a new tool intended to visualize, validate, and analyze MODIS data. The MDST started to develop a simple and quick MODIS data processing tool on the base of the existing HDFLook tool originally developed by the Laboratoire d’Optique Atmospherique (LOA) U. S. T. L., Lille, France.
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Gonzalez, L., Ouzounov, D., Nickless, D., Leptoukh, G. (2006). HDFLook—Multifunctional HDF-EOS Tool for MODIS and AIRS Data Processing at GES DISC DAAC. In: Qu, J.J., Gao, W., Kafatos, M., Murphy, R.E., Salomonson, V.V. (eds) Earth Science Satellite Remote Sensing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37294-3_11
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