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Develop and Adapt HDF5 Technologies and Provide HDF5 Services For NPOESS Data Production and Exploitation |
NPOESS faces formidable data management challenges. Choosing HDF5 as its distribution format helps address those challenges, for HDF5 is a proven technology for managing large, complex scientific data. However, the capabilities of HDF5 can only be fully exploited for NPOESS by applying the best expertise in their use, and that expertise is available in The HDF Group . The HDF Group experience in working with NPOESS staff, supplemented by a survey of key NPP and NPOESS participant groups, has identified three key areas in which The HDF Group can address important NPP and NPOESS requirements:
- Enhancing the HDF5 library to handle large data volume flow, at the same time to serving very diverse communities. This includes modifying and optimizing the library to achieve high I/O performance with NPOESS data structures, adding new features to meet the needs of the broad NPOESS user communities, and supporting HDF on current and future NPOESS user platforms.
- Developing new tools and technologies, and adapting existing tools, to enable NPOESS data producers and users to view data content, to translate data into other formats, and to manage metadata.
- Providing high priority support for NPOESS users by creating a support structure that gives priority to NPOESS HDF users at all levels.
This work addresses two of the areas of need identified in the NPOESS IGS Program:
- 1. Data exploitation and new product development
- 2. Development of innovative technologies that may help to enable the NPOESS mission
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NPOESS BAA The HDF Group Proposal |