Client Partners

Overview

An ECHO Client Partner works within the ECHO Community by developing a software application that communicates with web services available through the ECHO API. The ECHO API allows for various client types including user-interactive, metadata harvesting and other batch processing for scientists and other clients. Most ECHO clients provide access to ECHO's Earth Science metadata and browse catalog and order broker, while other client objectives exist to facilitate Data Partner data management and metrics collection.

The information contained within the Client Partners section of this website is organized to support the efforts of new and current ECHO Client Partners. For a complete list of current ECHO Client Partners, click here.

Client Partner Responsibilities

Client partners are responsible for:

• Providing an interface which facilitates the discovery of Earth Science data through ECHO's querying services.. more...
• Facilitating the creation of orders for data represented within ECHO's data holdings through ECHO's order brokerage serices.. more...
• Allowings users to access data services offered by ECHO and other Data and Service partners. more...
• Working in cooperation with the ECHO Operations team to meet the needs of ECHO's expanding user community.

Reference Materials

The following links and documentation provide quick access to the most commonly used reference materials by ECHO Client Partners.

• ECHO REST Search Guide - (PDF)
• Client Partner User's Guide - (PDF)
• ECHO SOAP API WSDLs, DTDs, and Schemas - http://api.echo.nasa.gov/echo/apis.html
• Alternative Query Language (AQL) - (DTD)
• ECHO Forms Specification - (PDF)
• ECHO Forms XML Schema - (XSD)