Background

The Airborne Data Management Group (ADMG) was established to facilitate faster access to airborne and field campaign data through development of an Earth Science Division (ESD)-wide approach to airborne data management and stewardship. ADMG works with Earth Venture Suborbital (EVS) teams, Research & Applications (R&A) research teams, and NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) to assist with communication and data transfer while also improving policies, procedures, and best practices to ensure quicker and more effective data archival and distribution to users. As the EVS-3 set of field investigations wrapped up, the increase in speed and efficiency of data transfer was evident.

Status

ADMG is actively completing an inventory of all non-satellite NASA Earth observations. Contextual metadata for over 145 airborne and field campaigns have been added to the ADMG-developed Catalog of Archived Earth Science Investigations (CASEI) resource. This number of campaigns is ever increasing. CASEI provides a public-facing web portal and API access for discovery, exploration, and query. Work is also currently underway to infuse CASEI’s functionality into the broader Earthdata infrastructure to further streamline discovery and (re)use of these unique and valuable observations.

Solution Characteristics

Societal Impact

NASA's ADMG built and currently maintains CASEI, a solution for search, browse, discovery, and the provision of contextual details critical for the re(use) of airborne and field campaign observations collected over a half century; this enables efficient findability, access, and increased scientific return on agency investments in these irreplaceable data.

Solution Resources

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