PPT Slide
- Baseline standard data format for distribution, production and archive of EOS data
- Selected based on evaluation of available formats and science data needs
- Based on National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Hierarchical Data Format
- HDF-EOS adds EOS data features to HDF
- HDF-EOS developed by EOS Core System contracto
- HDF-EOS provides
- Portability
- Self-description, allowing data to be read by generic tools
- Pre-organized metadata
- NASA invests in improvements to HDF and HDF-EOS