Review of NASA's Distributed Active Archive Centers

Committee on Geophysical and Environmental Data, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 1 Introduction; 4 2 Overview of the DAAC System; 5 3 Goddard Space Flight Center DAAC; 6 4 Langley Research Center DAAC; 7 5 EROS Data Center DAAC; 8 6 Alaska SAR Facility DAAC; 9 7 Physical Oceanography DAAC; 10 8 National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC; 11 9 Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC; 12 Afterword; 13 References; 14 A DAAC Review Agenda; 15 B Criteria for Review; 16 C CGED Interview with ESDIS (September 1997); 17 D User Survey; 18 Acronyms