NASA Earth Observing System Data Information System (EOSDIS)

EOSDIS provides a healthy Return on Investment as demonstrated by the yearly increases in access to its data holdings and the use of those data in research. This increase in access and use occurs while the overall system budget experiences modest increases. Distribution has been increasing much faster than the project budget increases driving the cost to NASA per product distributed to public users down to $0.12 as presented in the most recent PPBE review. The budget changes are largely the result of additional functionality or responsibilities assigned to the system rather than increased cost of regular operations. For example EOSDIS added a Near Real-Time (NRT) capability, improved access to imagery, and developed a common platform for an improved web presence. The NRT capability called Land Atmospheres Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) leverages EOSDIS distributed science processing to generate and distribute global near real-time products, creating data products within 3 hours from observation to support users such as natural resource managers, hazards and disasters workers, and scientists/researchers. EOSDIS provides Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), a full resolution image capability for visualizing data from EOSDIS Distributed Active Archive Centers. EOSDIS developed a common platform for an improved web presence (see http://earthdata.nasa.gov). This website supports EOSDIS-wide collaboration by creating a central website connecting all aspects of EOSDIS and providing a platform for incorporating new capabilities. These new capabilities provide additional services to its customers allowing EOSDIS to continue to receive high American Customer Satisfaction Index survey scores in an environment where the customers are more demanding and have higher expectations every year. EOSDIS is used extensively to obtain data and derived products for scientific research.

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