P&S 2005-05-23

From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

Data Quality Discussion at Winter Meeting

  • Overall logistics
Total time available: six hours
General structure: morning talks/afternoon breakouts
  • Climate Data Records -- Bruce Barkstrom, John Bates
Must stand the test of time, so most stringent
  • Science Ready/Science usage
ESIP Type II
  • Applications (Commercial)
ScienceSociety Benefit area groups
  • Education

P&S Inventory/ESIP Partnership Database

  • Will work with GCMD to fill in ESIP records
  • During same contact will update Federation database on our ESIPS
  • This work with begin this week to have as much done as possible before the Summer Meeting
  • Will contact Wayne Faas at NCDC and NOAA folks to get up-to-date on their inventory project
Check with Ted Habermann and the Rich Metadata effort
Also check status of using the FGDC Remote Sensing Extensions
  • Discussed what list of Data Quality issues could be included in polling
NOAA has some simple fields
We will look through the notes from our previous discussions
Possibly this aspect will come in the second pass when we fill in more details