NASA's Earth-Sun System Gateway: An Open Standards-based Portal to Geospatial Data and Services

Abstract

NASA's Earth-Sun System Gateway (ESG) streamlines access to remote geospatial data, imagery, models, and visualizations through open, standard Web protocols. By organizing detailed metadata about online resources into a flexible, searchable registry, it lets scientists, decision-makers, and others access a wide variety of observations and predictions of natural and human phenomena related to Earth Science and the Earth-Sun System, from NASA and other sources. We detail ESG's technical design; its use of open-standard interfaces; their potential for Earth-Sun System research and applications; and insights gained from its deployment to date.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 25, 2005
Accession Number
ADA452777

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  • John D. Evans
  • Myra J. Bambacus

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  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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  • Abstracts
  • Best Practices
  • Climate Change
  • Community Of Practice
  • Databases
  • Earth Sciences
  • Ecology
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Information Systems
  • Metadata
  • Public Health
  • Relational Databases
  • Standards
  • Three Dimensional
  • User Interface
  • Visualizations
  • Web Service

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  • Computer Networking
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.