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Annex 2 - The EOS Information Federation
Pages 542-543

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... Purpose The EOS Information Federation should facilitate the availability and use of information produced by, or required for, the creative activities of Mission to Planet Earth and the EOS. Thus, it should empower the global change research community to incorporate scientific, conceptual, and technical innovation and advances into the preparation and distribution of EOS products and information describing them.
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... • Producers, synthesizers, and consumers -- including global change research ers and earth scientists using primary geophysical datasets -- of higher level scientific data products and analyses, and assimilated datasets. • Other consumers of scientific data, including educators, students, policy analysts, and integrated assessment teams who seek reliable interpreted information.
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  • structure created
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  • including educators
  • instrument teams
  • observational products

  • information describing
  • client services
  • data processing
  • includes elements
  • primary observational

  • decentralized management
  • technical activities
  • using primary
  • scientists using
  • support access

  • assessment teams
  • search services
  • policy analysts
  • resolve technical
  • incorporate scientific


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