Using HDF5 Archive Information Package to preserve HDF-EOS2 data

Muqun Yang, Ruth Duerr, Choonghwan Lee, Maryam Gooyabadi

This one-year research project, funded by NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO) Scientific Data Stewardship (SDS), provides a solution to migrate data to a single standards-based archive format. Specifically, we investigate on how to store NASA ECS data and metadata into HDF5 Archival Information Packages (AIP). To achieve this, the HDF4 to HDF5 conversion tool has been enhanced so that converted ECS data can be read through the NetCDF4/CDM interface. In addition, metadata tools will be developed that convert ECS collection and granule level metadata to NOAA's collection level and NARA's METS standard. The enhanced HDF4 to HDF5 conversion tool has been released in May 2008 and it includes new functionality as the converted ECS data can be read through the NetCDF4 interface. We have tested 33 typical HDF-EOS2 swath, grid and point products at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). We also demonstrate the initial effort of the work to develop METS compliant metadata from granule metadata held in NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Core System (ECS).

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