HDF4 Data Used to Assess Long-Term Access to Remote Sensing Data with Layout Maps  View Catalog Page Entry ID
NSIDC-0397
Summary
Notice to Data Users: The documentation for this data set was provided solely by the Principal Investigator(s) and was not further developed, thoroughly reviewed, or edited by NSIDC. Thus, support for this data set may be limited.
This data set consists of a sampling of each type of Hierarchical Data Format version 4 (HDF4) data that are archived at the eight National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Science Data Centers (ESDCs). The data were sampled for a collaborative study between The HDF Group, the Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES-DISC), and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in order to assess the complex internal byte layout of HDF files. Based on the results of this assessment, methods for producing a map of the layout of the HDF4 files held by NASA were prototyped using a markup-language-based HDF tool. The resulting maps allow a separate program to read the file without recourse to the HDF application programming interface (API) (Duerr et al. 2009). Data products selected for the study, and a table summarizing the results, are available via FTP.
Data Set Citation
Dataset Creator: Duerr, Ruth E., and Jonathan Crider
Dataset Title: HDF4 Data Used to Assess Long-Term Access to Remote Sensing Data with Layout Maps
Dataset Release Date: 2010-02-12
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
Dataset Publisher: NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0397.html
Science Keywords
Ancillary Keywords
- environmental data
- geospatial data
- geotechnical data
- Hierarchical Data Format
- NASA
- NSIDC
- NSIDC DAAC
- NSIDC > National Snow and Ice Data Center
- Geoscientific Information
Platform
Data Set Progress
complete
Originating Center
NSIDC_DAAC
Data Center
NASA DAAC at the National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/daac/index.html
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Distribution
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Format: HDF
Personnel
Ruth Duerr
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 1 303 735-0136 x
Email: rduerr@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, CU Boulder
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- 449 University of Colorado at Boulder
City: Boulder
Province or State: Colorado
Postal Code: 80027
Country: USA
Jonathan Crider
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Reference
Duerr, Ruth E., Peter Cao, Jonathan Crider, Mike Folk, Christopher Lynnes, and Mu Qun Yang. 2009. Ensuring Long-Term Access to Remotely-Sensed Data with Layout Maps. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 47(1): 123-219.
Metadata Name and Version
Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2010-02-12
Last DIF Revision Date: 2012-03-28
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