NASA's Earth-Sun System Gateway: An Open Standards-based Portal to Geospatial Data and Services

摘要

NASA's Earth-Sun System Gateway (ESG) streamlines access to remote geospatial data, imagery, models, and visualizations through open, standard Web protocols. By organizing detailed metadata about online resources into a flexible, searchable registry, it lets scientists, decision-makers, and others access a wide variety of observations and predictions of natural and human phenomena related to Earth Science and the Earth-Sun System, from NASA and other sources. We detail ESG's technical design; its use of open-standard interfaces; their potential for Earth-Sun System research and applications; and insights gained from its deployment to date.