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The Earth Science Data System Working Groups (ESDSWG) is a NASA organization established under the auspices of NASA Headquarters in 2004. The chartered role of the ESDSWG focuses on the exploration and development of recommendations derived from pertinent community insights of NASA's heterogeneous and distributed Earth science data systems.

The ESDSWG is comprised of working groups organized around key technology and information system issues. Each Working Group functions independently establishing their own work plans on germane data system issues and topics. The ESDSWG members are drawn from a broad range of NASA-funded science and technology projects, NASA information technology experts, affiliated contractor staff and other interested community members from academia and industry.

News and Events

The 2018 ESDSWG Annual Meeting is scheduled for April 18-20 in Annapolis, MD.

The NCTS Code for the meeting is 32586-18.

2017-18 Working Groups

  • Applications of User Characterization in Search Relevance
  • Atmospheric Composition Variable Standard Name
  • Data Quality
  • Dataset Interoperability
  • Earth System Grid Federation Interoperability
  • Geospatial Web Services
  • Map Projections for Earth Observation Data
  • Software and Services Citations
  • Time Series
  • Vertical Profile Data Visualization


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