Title :
Architecture and design of storage and data management for the NASA Earth observing system Data and Information System (EOSDIS)
Author :
Kobler, B. ; Berbert, John ; Caulk, Parris ; Hariharan, P.C.
Author_Institution :
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Abstract :
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
Keywords :
aerospace computing; geographic information systems; storage management; weather forecasting; Distributed Active Archive Centers; EOSDIS; Earth science community; Earth science data; Mission to Planet Earth; NASA Earth observing system Data and Information System; Science Data Processing Segment; distributed system; global climate change; science users; storage and data management; Data processing; Earth Observing System; Geometry; Geoscience; Information systems; Management information systems; NASA; Planets; Power system management; Systems engineering and theory;
Conference_Titel :
Mass Storage Systems, 1995. 'Storage - At the Forefront of Information Infrastructures', Proceedings of the Fourteenth IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Monterey, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7064-9
DOI :
10.1109/MASS.1995.528217
