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2007 AGU Fall Meeting, December 10-14, San Francisco, CA

Web Services Implementations at Land Process and
Goddard Earth Sciences Distributed Active Archive Centers

1Cole, M., 1Bambacus, M., 2Lynnes, C., 3Sauer, B., 4Falke, S., 5Yang, W.

1NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Geosciences Interoperability Office, Code 610.4, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
2NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 610.2, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
3USGS Land Process Distributed Active Archive Center, 47914 252nd St, Sioux Falls, SD 57198, USA
4Washington University in St. Louis, Box 1180, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
5George Mason University, Center for Spatial Informaiton Science and Systems, 6301 Ivy Lane, Suite 620, Greenbelt, MD 20770, USA

NASA's vast array of scientific data within its Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) is especially valuable to both traditional research scientists as well as the emerging market of Earth Science Information Partners. For example, the air quality science and management communities are increasingly using satellite derived observations in their analyses and decision making. The Air Quality Cluster in the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) uses web infrastructures of interoperability, or Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), to extend data exploration, use, and analysis and provides a user environment for DAAC products. In an effort to continually offer these NASA data to the broadest research community audience, and reusing emerging technologies, both NASA's Goddard Earth Science (GES) and Land Process (LP) DAACs have engaged in a web services pilot project. Through these projects both GES and LP have exposed data through the Open Geospatial Consortiums (OGC) Web Services standards. Reusing several different existing applications and implementation techniques, GES and LP successfully exposed a variety data, through distributed systems to be ingested into multiple end-user systems. The results of this project will enable researchers world wide to access some of NASA's GES & LP DAAC data through OGC protocols. This functionality encourages inter-disciplinary research while increasing data use through advanced technologies. This paper will concentrate on the implementation and use of OGC Web Services, specifically Web Map and Web Coverage Services (WMS, WCS) at GES and LP DAACs, and the value of these services within scientific applications, including integration with the DataFed air quality web infrastructure and in the development of data analysis web applications

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