Architecture and design of storage and data management for the NASA Earth observing system Data and Information System (EOSDIS)

Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE) is a long-term NASA research mission to study the processes leading to global climate change. The EOS Data and Information System (EOSDIS) is the component within MTPE that will provide the Earth science community with easy, affordable, and reliable access to Earth sci...

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Published in:Proceedings of IEEE 14th Symposium on Mass Storage Systems pp. 65 - 76
Main Authors: Kobler, B., Berbert, J., Caulk, P., Hariharan, P.C.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 1995
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Summary:Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE) is a long-term NASA research mission to study the processes leading to global climate change. The EOS Data and Information System (EOSDIS) is the component within MTPE that will provide the Earth science community with easy, affordable, and reliable access to Earth science data. EOSDIS is a distributed system, with major facilities at eight Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) located throughout the United States. At the DAACs the Science Data Processing Segment (SDPS) will receive, process, archive, and manage all data. It is estimated that several hundred gigaflops of processing power will be required to process and archive the several terabytes of new data that will be generated and distributed daily. Thousands of science users and perhaps several hundred thousand nonscience users will access the system.
ISBN:0818670649
9780818670640
ISSN:1051-9173
2375-1150
DOI:10.1109/MASS.1995.528217