A Catalog of EOSDIS Related Information

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Table of Contents

* EOSDIS Sites
* EOSDIS Documents
* People and Contacts
* Geographic Data and Metadata Standards
* Other Data and Protocol Standards
* Databases and Multiresolution
* Miscellany

EOSDIS Sites

* NASA

* Mission to Planet Earth
* EOS Home Page
* EOS Project Science Office Home Page
* EOSDIS/ESDIS Home Page
* Federated Approach to EOSDIS
* ECS Data Handling System (EDHS)
* EOSDIS V0 IMS
* EOSDIS DAACs

* ECS at Hughes
* ECS Newsroom at Hughes
* EOSDIS at UC Berkeley
* Sequoia 2000 (ftp) at UC Berkeley
* EOSDIS at UC Santa Barbara
* Alt-EOSDIS at SDSC
* Sequoia 2000 at SDSC
* EOS at CSR of UT Austin

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EOSDIS Documents

* General Descriptions and Glossaries

* Data and Information System for MtPE (NASA)
* EOS Glossary of Terms (NASA)
* EOSDIS Glossary of Terms [larger](by HAIS, @ EDHS, NASA)
* EOSDIS Glossary of Terms (IMS, NASA)
* ECS Acronym Glossary (HITC)

* System Architecture

* EOSDIS Information Architecture and the Web (EDHS, NASA)
* ECS Architecture (HITC)
* DAAC-in-a-Box Web Based Science Data Server Architecture (NASA)

* Data Models, Types and Formats

* EOSDIS Data Model (NASA)
* ECS Data Model: Earth Science (NASA)
* HDF-EOS Primer (NASA)

* HDF-EOS extensions beyond standard HDF (NASA)

* The Point Concept
* The Swath Concept
* The Grid Concept
* The Browse Concept

* Mosaic, HDF and EOSDIS:Providing Access to Earth Sciences Data (NASA)
* SDPS Database Design and Database Schema Specs (EDHS, NASA)

* Metadata and Related Issues

* Mandatory Metadata (NASA)
* Product Specific Metadata (NASA)
* Granule Level Metadata (NASA)
* Treatment of Metadata within the ECS Architecture (HITC)
* Metadata Issues in EOSDIS Data Processing Tools (HITC)
* Thoughts on HDF-EOS Metadata (EDHS, NASA)
* ECS Core Metadata Standard (EDHS, NASA)

* User Surveys

* EOSDIS Product Use Survey (HITC)
* User Characterization Studies (HITC)

* Other Document Collections at NASA and Hughes

* Catalog: EOS Documents Catalog (NASA)
* Catalog: ECS Reading Room (HITC)
* Catalog: EOSDIS Information Architecture Documents (NASA)
* Catalog: EOSDIS IV&V Library Document Catalog (NASA)
* Catalog: DAAC Usage Guides (NASA)

* Sequoia 2000 and Big Sur

* Sequoia 2000 Schema Development (UCB)
* Big Sur Glossary of Terms (UCB)
* Big Sur Draft (UCB)
* Big Sur Base Schema (UCB)
* Big Sur SQL Code (UCB)
* Catalog: Sequoia 2000 Technical Report Archive (UCB)

* UT Austin Proposal (Available only to UTCS users)

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People and Contacts

* Paul Brown (UCB)

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Geographic Data and Metadata Standards

* DIGEST

* General Description of the Standard (Defence Geomatics, Canada)
* DIGEST Software Tools (Defence Geomatics, Canada)
* Brief Description (DMA, US Govt)
* Very Brief Description (FFI, Norway)
* DIGEST Fact Sheet (US Army)

* FGDC

* Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata (by FGDC; @ UCB)
* Metadata Standards Development (FGDC)
* Image Map of the Metadata Standard (NBS, USGS)

* OGIS

* OGIS Guide (OGIS)

* POSC

* POSC Technical Information (POSC)
* Geoshare Migration and POSC (SAS)

* SAIF

* SAIF 3.2 Formal Definition (Govt of BC, Canada)
* SAIF and FMEBC Home Page (Govt of BC, Canada)
* SAIF 3.1 Formal Definition (UCB)

* SDTS

* Overview of the SDTS Standard (USGS)
* SDTS Specifications (USGS)
* SDTS Home Page (USGS)

* Miscellaneous

* NOAA and NMC Data Product Descriptions (NASA)
* Klamath Metadata Dictionary (UCB)
* GRASS (OGIS, US Army)
* Metadata and Data Management Info Page (LLNL)
* Geographic Information Systems (USGS)
* GIS Information Resources List (U of Edinburgh, Scotland)

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Other Data and Protocol Standards

* CORBA

* CORBA Overview (OMG)
* A Brief Tutorial on CORBA (Indiana Univ)
* Information Resources on CORBA (LANL)
* Comparison of CORBA and DCE (MITRE)
* Comparison of CORBA and OLE (CERN)

* HDF

* HDF Information Server (NCSA)
* HDF Reference Manual (NCSA)
* HDF User's Guide (NCSA)

* NetCDF

* NetCDF User's Guide (USDA)
* NetCDF Home Page (Unidata)
* NetCDF Page (Texas A&M)

* SNMP

* SNMP FAQs (snmp.com)
* SNMP Index (Project Nile, UT Austin)
* SNMP and Network Management (UWaterloo)

* SQL

* SQL Standards Home Page (JCC Consulting)
* SQL-86 (NIST)
* SQL Standard ANSI X3.135-1992 (FIPS @ NIST)
* SQL3 ANSI X3H7 (1993) (GTE)
* Preliminary SQL3 Documents (Universität Passau, Germany)
* Temporal SQL (U Arizona)
* SQL/MM Description (JCC Consulting)
* SQL/MM Base Documents (NIST)
* GSQL: A Mosaic-to-SQL Gateway (NCSA)
* SQL Description (NIST)
* SQL Reference Page (CMU)

* XDR

* RFC 1014 (HTML @ VT)
* RFC 1014 (text @ InterNIC)
* RPC Guide (Umeå Universitet, Sweden)

* Z39.50

* Z39.50 in a Nutshell (National Library of Medicine)
* RFC 1729 (InterNIC)
* Z39.50 Resources Index (InterNIC)

* Miscellaneous

* A User's Guide for FITS
* BUFR, the WMO standard for point data
* NOST SFDU Support Office Home Page
* SFDU Usage
* SFDU and PVL (CCSDS Panel 2 Home Page) (NASA)
* Compounding Documents Through OLE
* IBM's System Object Model (SOM)
* SOM Overview

* Other Collections of Standards

* Computer and Communication Standards (SAS)
* Federal Information Processing Standards (NIST)

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Databases and Multiresolution

* Multiresolution

* Rob Read's Papers (UT Austin)

* A Multiresolution Relational Data Model (Tech Report)
* System-wide Multiresolution (Tech Report)
* Towards Multiresolution Data Retrieval Via The Sandbag (PhD Thesis)

* Multiresolution Seamless Image Database and DOQ (TeleMed, LANL)
* Fast Multiresolution Image Querying (U Washington)

* Massive Digital Database Systems

* MDDS Home Page (National Media Lab)
* Transaction Management and Query Processing in MDDS (UMass)
* Digital Library Technology (NASA)
* National Storage Laboratory (LLNL)

* Spatial Database Systems

* Paradise: A Parallel Database System for GIS Applications (Wisc-Mad)
* Spatial Databases Research (Politecnico di Milano)
* Deductive, OO Spatial DBMS (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland)
* QL/G Spatial Database (U Waterloo, Canada)

* `Generic' Database Systems

* Illustra ORDBMS
* Illustra FAQ (Sequoia 2000; UCB)
* Tips for Using the Illustra Relational Database (MIT)
* Oracle FAQ (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)
* comp.databases.sybase FAQ (FAQ archive, Ohio State)
* Ingres RDBMS (UCB)
* Postgres95 Extensible RDBMS (UCB)
* Paper on Postgres-Illustra Differences (UCB)

* Database Vendors, Standards, and Research Groups (UCB)
* SIGMOD Database Information Index (UIUC)
* Database Resources Index (UMass)
* Yahoo Index on Databases

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Miscellany

* HDF for EOSDIS (NASA)
* HDF Reference Manual (Institut für Atmosphärenphysik, Germany)
* Mission to Planet Earth (alternative; with resource index)
* DAAC List (alternative; @ HITC)
* Ministry of Environment, BC, Canada
* U.S. Geological Survey
* Federal Geographic Data Committee (USGS)
* CSR Main Page (UT Austin)
* ICESS at UC Santa Barbara
* EOSDIS at UC San Diego
* Information server for ACM SIGIR
* Information server for ACM SIGMOD
* Information server for ACM SIGMM
* Information server for ACM SIGOIS
* Andrew Dorrell, ``Visual Information Representation for Scalable Coding and Analysis,'' PhD Doctoral Assessment, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, May 1995. LatexToHtml copy
* Wavelets, Multiresolution, Noise Suppression, Filtering, Image Restoration, Image Compression, Astronomical Applications (ESO)
* A Brief Introduction to Multiresolution Analysis (ARL-UT)
* Using Multi-Resolution Analysis to Study the Complexity of Inverse Calculations (Colorado School of Mines)
* Wavelet-based Multiresolution Analysis (Rice)
* Introduction to Wavelets and their Applications (Texas A&M)
* Multiresolution Seamless Image Database (Lizard Tech)
* The Digital Village Project (LANL)

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