GES DISC DAAC The Goddard DAAC http daac

GES DISC DAAC The Goddard DAAC http: //daac. gsfc. nasa. gov HDF and HDFEOS Experiences and Applications Presented by: James Johnson, SSAI February 28, 2002 HDF-EOS Workshop V 1

Science Disciplines GES DISC DAAC Atmospheric Dynamics Global Biosphere Ocean Color • CZCS • OCTS • Sea. Wi. FS • Terra MODIS • Aqua MODIS • TOVS Pathfinder • Data Assimilation • Terra MODIS • Aqua AIRS • Aqua MODIS TOVS 1000 h. Pa Monthly Mean Specific Humidity Hydrology Black completed Red - active Green - future Monthly Ocean Chlorophyll and NVDI from Sea. Wi. FS Upper Atmosphere • Rainfall Climatology • TRMM Field Experiments • Aqua AIRS Hurricane Mitch as seen by TRMM February 28, 2002 Land Biosphere • AVHRR Pathfinder 1999 Antarctic Ozone Hole as seen by TOMS HDF-EOS Workshop V • Heritage BUV/SBUV • Heritage LIMS • Heritage TOMS • UARS • EP TOMS • Aura HIRDLS • Aura MLS • Aura OMI • SORCE 2

Primary Data Sets GES DISC DAAC February 28, 2002 HDF-EOS Workshop V 3

GES DISC DAAC n n HDF & HDF-EOS Applications Universal Data Reduction Server (UDRS) u Distributed Oceanographic Data System (DODS) u Web Mapping Testbed (WMT-DODS)/Open. GIS u Live Access Server (LAS)/Ferret u Gridded Analysis and Display System (Gr. ADS-DODS) Online data Analysis (OASIS) read_hdf generic reader other data set specific read software, including MODIS February 28, 2002 HDF-EOS Workshop V 4

GES DISC DAAC n Universal Data Reduction Server A virtual server consisting of: u DODS server u WMT-DODS server u Gr. ADS-DODS server u LAS/Ferret u (others can be added) n Allows a variety of discipline, interdisciplinary and applications users to access DAAC data February 28, 2002 HDF-EOS Workshop V 5

GES DISC DAAC Distributed Oceanographic Data Server n n n n DODS developed by URI and UCAR a protocol for requesting and transporting data across the web Transparently supports multiple formats Subsetting performed at server end Supports various servers (net. CDF, HDF, Gr. ADS, Mat. LAB, Free. Form, …) Supports various clients (IDL, Mat. LAB, Ferret, LAS, Gr. ADS, …) Various DAAC data sets served by DODS (see http: //daac. gsfc. nasa. gov/DAAC_DOCS/DODS. html) February 28, 2002 HDF-EOS Workshop V 6

GES DISC DAAC n n Web Mapping Testbed WMT-DODS Server Open. GIS consortium Import HDF & HDF-EOS data into GIS packages Supports geolocated images Interface to many DODS servers u DAAC u external (see http: //daac. gsfc. nasa. gov/daac-bin/viewer. cgi) February 28, 2002 HDF-EOS Workshop V 7

Gr. ADS-DODS Server GES DISC DAAC n n n n Developed by Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA) Supports data analysis functions (statistical, smoothing, correlation, …) Subset data Work on single or multiple files Supports several data formats (HDF, net. CDF, GRIB, binary, …) Interfaces with DODS DAAC Server to go operational later this year February 28, 2002 HDF-EOS Workshop V 8

GES DISC DAAC n n n n Live Access Server/ Ferret LAS developed by NOAA Web GUI interface (Ferret) Interfaces with DODS Visualize data Subset data Save to various formats Custom data set specific templates added by DAAC Support for MODIS and Sea. Wi. FS (coming soon) February 28, 2002 HDF-EOS Workshop V 9

Atmospheric Dynamics OASIS GES DISC DAAC n n n n Web Interface Uses JAVA applets Perform data analysis online Intercomparison Visualize data Animations Supports DAAC atmospheric dynamics data HDF & HDF-EOS support coming soon (see http: //daac. gsfc. nasa. gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/atmospheric_dynamics/online_analysis/OASIS/html/ ) February 28, 2002 HDF-EOS Workshop V 10

read_hdf GES DISC DAAC n n n Interactive command line C program Generic, supports any HDF file Display hierarchical tree of useful objects (SDS, Vdata, Vgroup, Raster Images, Annotations) Subset data Output to ASCII or binary Also dump any obscure HDF object (DFTAG_NT, DFTAG_VERSION, etc. ) February 28, 2002 HDF-EOS Workshop V 11

GES DISC DAAC n Other DAAC HDF Applications MODIS readers and visualization (IDL based) (see http: //daac. gsfc. nasa. gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/MODIS/) u geoview u modis_atmos u simap u HDFLook-MODIS n n n (collaboration between DAAC and the Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique, France) Sea. Wi. FS data best used with Sea. Wi. FS’ Sea. DAS package TRMM data reader and IDL based TSDIS orbit viewer Other DAAC data sets include C, Fortran and/or IDL readers February 28, 2002 HDF-EOS Workshop V 12

HDF & HDF-EOS Issues GES DISC DAAC n Large file sizes (MODIS, AVHRR) u u u n User frustration u u u n requires lots of bandwidth for downloading end user needs lots of disk space non-standard Grid projections reluctance to accept HDF (prefer ASCII, binary, other formats) download and install libraries (two for HDF-EOS) confusion - HDF, HDF-EOS, and now HDF 5 Poor HDF layout/implementation (or not self documenting) u u cryptic field and file names no field level attributes or descriptions of file contents too many fields internal compression rarely utilized February 28, 2002 HDF-EOS Workshop V 13