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Building Cost-Effective Remote Data Storage Capabilities for NASA's EOSDIS

• Tags:
• nation,
• earth,
• eos,
• return

Overview NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) Program is now collecting unprecedented volumes of data (nearly one petabyte/year) to aid the nation in its understanding of the Earth's near and long-term climate processes. These data are a national resource that must be carefully preserved to maximize the nation's return on the EOS Program. To address this need NASA has initiated the development of a Remote Data Store (RDS) backup and recovery capability that will operate independent of, but closely allied to, the current Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs). This paper outlines the following: the evolutionary technology path that will ultimately provide automated, secure, seamless and efficient remote on-line redundant storage; and the recovery and access of operational EOS mission data products.

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