Earthdata

NASA views its data systems in terms of “Core” and “Community” capabilities. The core capabilities provide the basic infrastructure for robust and reliable data capture, processing, archiving, and distributing a set of data products to a large and diverse user community.

Community capabilities provide specialized and innovative services to data users and/or research products offering new scientific insight. Such systems are generally supported by NASA through peer-reviewed competition via the following programs. View current and past projects within each program.

• Research, Education and Applications Solutions Network (REASoN)
• Advancing Collaborative Connections for Earth System Science (ACCESS), and
• Making Earth System data records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) programs.

Visit NASA Earth Science for more information regarding core and community data system elements. 

• Metrics Planning Group (MPG)
• CDS Metrics Collection Tutorial
• Metrics Baseline Report (Nov 2011)
• Product Quality Guidance and Checklist
• Metrics Collection Tool (MCT)
• ESDS e-Books