Abstract
One of the strategic goals of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is to “Develop a balanced overall program of science, exploration, and aeronautics consistent with the redirection of the human spaceflight program to focus on exploration” (NASA 2006). An important sub-goal of this goal is to “Study Earth from space to advance scientific understanding and meet societal needs.” NASA meets this sub-goal in partnership with other US agencies and international organizations through its Earth science program. A major component of NASA’s Earth science program is the Earth Observing System (EOS). The EOS program was started in 1990 with the primary purpose of modeling global climate change. This program consists of a set of space-borne instruments, science teams, and a data system. The instruments are designed to obtain highly accurate, frequent, and global measurements of geophysical properties of land, oceans, and atmosphere. The science teams are responsible for designing the instruments as well as scientific algorithms to derive information from the instrument measurements.
This work was performed by the first two and the fourth and fifth authors (Mary Ann Esfandiari) as part of their official duties as employees of the US government. It was supported by the NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. The third author worked as a contractor supporting this effort under contract NNG05CA99C between NASA and SGT, Inc. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of NASA.
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- ACCESS:
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Advancing Collaborative Connections for Earth System Science
- ACRIM:
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Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor
- ACRIMSAT:
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Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor Satellite
- AIRS:
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Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
- AMSR-E:
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Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - EOS
- AMSU:
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Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
- ANGe:
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Archive Next Generation
- API:
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Application Programming Interface
- ASDC:
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Atmospheric Sciences Data Center
- ASF:
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Alaska Satellite Facility
- ASTER:
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Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection
- CALIOP:
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Cloud-Aerosl Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization
- CALIPSO:
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Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation
- CDDIS:
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Crustal Dynamics Data and Information System
- CERES:
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Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System
- CPR:
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Cloud Profiling Radar
- DAAC:
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Distributed Active Archive Center
- DB:
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Direct Broadcast
- DIF:
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Directory Interchange Format
- DISC:
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Data and Information Services Center
- DORIS:
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Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated By Satellite
- ECHO:
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EOS ClearingHOuse
- ECS:
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EOSDIS Core System
- EDC:
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EROS Data Center
- EDG:
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EOS Data Gateway
- EDOS:
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EOS Data and Operations System
- EEE:
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Evolution of EOSDIS Elements
- EOC:
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EOS Operations Center
- EOS:
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Earth Observing System
- EOSDIS:
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Earth Observing System Data and Information System
- EPGS:
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EOS Polar Ground Stations
- EROS:
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Earth Resources Observation Systems
- ESDIS:
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Earth Science Data and Information System
- ESDSWG:
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Earth Science Data System Working Groups
- ESE:
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Earth Science Enterprise
- ESIPs:
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Earth Science Information Partners
- ESSP:
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Earth System Science Pathfinder
- FGDC:
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Federal Geographic Data Committee
- FOS:
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Flight Operations Segment
- FTP:
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File Transfer Protocol
- GCMD:
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Global Change Master Directory
- GES:
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GSFC Earth Sciences
- GHRC:
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Global Hydrology Resource Center
- GLAS:
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Geoscience Laser Altimeter System
- GPM:
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Global Precipitation Mission
- GSFC:
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Goddard Space Flight Center
- HDF:
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Hierarchical Data Format
- HIRDLS:
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High-Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder
- HSB:
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Humidity Sounder for Brazil
- ICESat:
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Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite
- IMS:
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Information Management System
- IT:
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Information Technology
- JMR:
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Jason Microwave Imager
- JPL:
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- LAADS:
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Level 1 and Atmospheric data Archiving and Distribution System
- LaTIS:
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Langley TRMM Information System
- LIS:
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Lightning Imaging Sensor
- LP DAAC:
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Land Processes DAAC
- MEaSUREs:
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Making Earth Science Data Records for Use in Research Environments
- MISR:
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Multi-angle Imaging Spectrometer
- MLS:
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Microwave Limb Sounder
- MODAPS:
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MODIS Adaptive Processing System
- MODIS:
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Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
- MOPITT:
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Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere
- NASA:
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NCAR:
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National Center for Atmospheric Research
- NCSA:
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National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- NewDISS:
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new Data and Information Systems and Services
- NISN:
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NASA Integrated Services Network
- NOAA:
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- NRC:
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National Research Council
- NSIDC:
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National Snow and Ice Data Center
- OBPG:
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Ocean Biology Processing Group
- OGC:
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Open GIS Consortium
- OMI:
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Ozone Monitoring Instrument
- ORNL:
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- PB:
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Peta Byte
- PI/TL:
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Principal Investigator/Team Leader
- PO.DAAC:
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Physical Oceanography DAAC
- QuickScat:
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Quick Scatterometer
- REASoN:
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Research, Education and Applications Solutions Network
- S4PA:
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Simple Scalable Script-Based Science Processor Archive
- SAGE:
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Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment
- SAN:
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Storage Area Network
- SAR:
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Synthetic Aperture Radar
- SDPS:
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Science Data Processing Segment
- SeaWinds:
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Seawinds Scatterometer (For Flight On ADEOS II)
- SEDAC:
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Socio-economic Data Applications Center
- SEEDS:
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Strategic Evolution of Earth Science Enterprise (ESE) Data Systems
- SIM:
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Spectral Irradiance Monitor
- SIPSs:
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Science Investigator-led Processing Systems
- SLOC:
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Source Lines of Code
- SOLSTICE:
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Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment
- SORCE:
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Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment
- TB:
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Terabyte
- TDRS:
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Tracking and Data Relay Satellite
- TES:
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Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer
- THG:
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the HDF Group
- TIM:
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Total Irradiance Monitor
- TRMM:
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Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
- TSDIS:
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Tropical Rainfall Mapping Mission Science Data and Information System
- UARS:
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Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
- US:
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United States
- USGS:
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US Geological Survey
- UWG:
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Users Working Group
- V0:
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Version 0
- WCS:
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Web Coverage Service
- WIST:
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Warehouse Inventory Search Tool
- WMS:
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Web Mapping Service
- WSC:
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White Sands Complex
- WWW:
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World Wide Web
- XPS:
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XUV Photometer System
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Acknowledgments
The development and evolution of EOSDIS since 1990 has been the result of the efforts of scores of people within and outside NASA. It is not practical to name all those that have been involved. The most recent, formal study was conducted as a collaborative effort between the EOSDIS Elements Evolution Study Team and the Technical Team, further supported by technical consultants. The Study Team members were M. Pniel (lead), W. Brooks, P. Cornillon, S. Denning, J. Frew, W. Green, and B. Minster. M. Maiden and M. Esfandiari were ex officio members. The Technical team members were: M. Esfandiari (lead), J. Behnke, C. Bock, M. Ferebee, K. Fontaine, M. Goodman, P. Liggett, D. Lowe, K. McDonald, E. Masuoka, D. Marinelli, K. Moe, R. Pfister, H. Ramapriyan, S. Reber, C. Schroeder, E. Sofinowski, S. Turner, and B. Vollmer. The technical consultants were G. Feldman, C. Lynnes, E. Stocker, and V. Zlotnicki. The implementation was carried out by the ESDIS Project and each of the EOSDIS elements mentioned in Sect. 5.6.
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Ramapriyan, H.K., Behnke, J., Sofinowski, E., Lowe, D., Esfandiari, M.A. (2010). Evolution of the Earth Observing System (EOS) Data and Information System (EOSDIS). In: Di, L., Ramapriyan, H. (eds) Standard-Based Data and Information Systems for Earth Observation. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88264-0_5
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