ASTER metadata layer at glims.org: almost back

[Bruce RAUP]

All,

I'm sure many of you are aware that the "ASTER footprints" layer in the 
GLIMS MapServer application 
(http://glims.colorado.edu/glacierdata/glacierdata.php) has not been 
updated in some time.  We had been automatically downloading ASTER 
metadata from EROS Data Center, but that process broke down and needed 
to be rebuilt.

We (at NSIDC) have rewritten the scripts to pull the metadata from a new
server at EROS, and will soon have the daily ingest process restored and
caught up to the present.  However, EROS is currently having a problem with
their server that handles browse imagery, so we must wait for this to come
back online.  Note that this problem also affects EROS's own interface,
called WIST.

I'll send out another message when this layer in the MapServer is restored.

Best regards,
Bruce

-- 
Bruce H. RAUP
National Snow and Ice Data Center
University of Colorado
449 UCB,  Boulder, CO 80309
Phone:  303-492-8814
http://cires.colorado.edu/~braup/