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... Another relevant report, Government Data Centers: Meeting Increasing Demands (NRC, 2003a) , summarizes a workshop exploring how the increasing volume and number of data sets, coupled with greater demands from more diverse users, are making it difficult for data centers to maintain records of environmental change.
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... Key to successful implementation of a strong system that will serve operational users and the nation well are detailed planning, proactive follow through, and NOAA's incorporation of lessons learned from previously developed, similarly scaled initiatives with similar system requirements. · Data from diverse satellite platforms and for different environmental variables must often be retrieved from different sources, and these retrievals often yield data sets in different formats with different resolution and gridding.
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From page 8...
... has also highlighted the critical need for the archival, access and stewardship of climate data records, focusing on satellites, as stated in one of their recommendations: The committee recommends that NOAA, working with the Climate Change Science Program and the international Group on Earth Observations, create a climate data and information system to meet the challenge of ensuring the production, distribution, and stewardship of high-accuracy climate records from NPOESS and other relevant observational platforms. Similarly, the National Science Board at the request of the National Science Foundation has also reported on the importance of long-term archives in "Long-lived Digital Data Collections: Enabling Research and Education for the 21st Century" (NSF, 2005)
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... In this interim report, the committee is thus attempting to synthesize and apply concepts that have gained broad acceptance in the data management community as preliminary principles and guidelines for archiving environmental and geospatial data in particular.
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