PPT Slide
- ESDIS selected a standard data format and invests in improving it
- Advantage: optimized for high levels of data service, access, and interchange (least costly way to achieve this goal)
- Selection was based on evaluation of available formats and science data needs
- Data format standards were evaluated based on
- Input from EOSDIS data archive centers (DAACs)
- Support for broad set of data types
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Hierarchical Data Format was chosen as the best of the alternatives
- HDF-EOS adds standards to HDF for EOS data