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1. NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) [NASA_NEX]
The NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) represents a new platform for the Earth science community that provides a mechanism for scientific collaboration and knowledge sharing. NEX combines state-of-the-art ...

2. Earth, Life and Semantic Web (ELSeWeb) [ELSeWEB]
ELSeWeb is a NASA ACCESS-funded project that began in February 2012 to tackle the challenge of making Earth Science data more easily used in scientific studies of biological forecasting . The goal ...

3. Karma Provenance Collection Tool [provenance_karma]
Provenance (or lineage, trace) of digital scientific data is a critical component to broadening sharing and reuse of scientific data. Provenance captures the information needed to attribute ownership ...

4. XML Metadata Concept Catalog (XMC Cat) [XMC_Cat]
XMC Cat is a metadata catalog that stores rich metadata describing data objects that are themselves stored in files, storage repositories, or on the web. It is an open source web service written in ...

5. Open Metadata Registry [omr]
The Open Metadata Registry is a fundamental piece of technical infrastructure for the Semantic Web. While originally built to support the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), the Registry is available ...

6. Python implementation of the Data Access Protocol (pyDAP) [pyDAP]
Python implementation of the Data Access Protocol This module is an implementation of the Data Access Protocol written in Python from scratch. You can use the module as a client to connect to remote ...

7. INTEGRATED BIOSPHERE SIMULATOR MODEL (IBIS), VERSION 2.5 [model_ibis]
The Integrated Biosphere Simulator (or IBIS) is designed to be a comprehensive model of the terrestrial biosphere. The model represents a wide range of processes, including land surface physics, canopy ...

8. PNET MODELS: CARBON, NITROGEN, WATER DYNAMICS IN FOREST ECOSYSTEMS (VERS. 4 AND 5) [model_archive_pnet_4_and_5]
PnET (Photosynthetic / EvapoTranspiration model) is a nested series of models of carbon, water, and nitrogen dynamics in forest ecosystems. The models can be used to predict transient responses in ...

9. EO-1 Workflow Chaining Service [urnuuid7dc2f809-1d3d-48c4-8d15-db24b96dd39e]
The EO-1 Workflow Chaining Service is a Workflow engine to orchestrate the various web services to generate data products, task satellite assets, and disseminate data.

10. GIS Toolkit [GIS_toolkit]
The GIS Toolkit is a free java based mapping toolkit, it has the ability to read geographical data from a variety of data sources and display that information to the user. It can directly ...

11. The Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF) Data Products and Satellite Imagery [01-global_land_cov_facility-00]
The Global Land Cover Facility makes available to the public a variety of free science data products including satellite imagery of the Earth, classified images of the Earth's land cover, Marsh area ...

12. docBUILDER Metadata Authoring Tool [GCMD_docBUILDER]
NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) web-based docBUILDER authoring tool provide the capability to create and modify metadata descriptions for GCMD metadata records include data set descriptions, ...

13. PALYHELP - Statistical Software for Palynological and Paleoecological Research Data [PalyHelp]
PalyHelp is a suite of six programs for solving Mosimann's equations for confidence limits, and programs for solving and testing pollen concentration data. These programs run on Microsoft Windows, ...

14. EOS ClearingHOuse (ECHO) [EOSDIS-ECHO]
The NASA-developed Earth Observing System (EOS) Clearinghouse (ECHO) is a spatial and temporal metadata registry that enables the science community to more easily use and exchange NASA's data and ...

15. EPA Metadata Editor [EPA_EMA]
The EPA Metadata Editor (EME) is a simple geospatial metadata editor that allows users to create and edit records that meet the EPA Geospatial Metadata Technical Specification and Federal Geographic ...

16. EstimateS - Statistical Estimation of Species Richness and Shared Species from Samples [EstimateS]   PARENT SERF
EstimateS 7.5 is a free software application for Windows and Macintosh operating systems that computes a variety of biodiversity functions, estimators, and indices based on biotic sampling data. Some ...

17. Reverb ECHO - The Next Generation Earth Science Discovery Tool [NASA_ECHO_REVERB]
The NASA-developed Earth Observing System (EOS) Clearinghouse (ECHO) is a spatial and temporal metadata registry and order broker built by NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) ...

18. The European Geo-Portal [EU_GEOPORTAL_INSPIRE]   CHILD SERFs
The INSPIRE geoportal provide the means to search for spatial data sets and spatial data services, and subject to access restrictions, view and download spatial data sets from the EU Member States ...

19. Enabling Virtual Organizations (EVO) [EVO]
The EVO (Enabling Virtual Organizations) system provides broad support for video conferencing and related services. In addition to standard video conferencing, EVO supports instant messaging, private ...

20. NOAA Coastal Services Center C-CAP Data Distribution Tool [C_CAP]
The C-CAP Data Distribution Tool has been developed by the NOAA Coastal Services Center for distribution of their C-CAP land cover and change data. With this tool, users can search, view and download ...

21. Arctic Research Mapping Application (ARMAP) [ARMAP]
The Arctic Research Mapping Application (ARMAP) is a suite of online, interactive maps and services that support Arctic science. - Learn more about research projects in your region of interest or ...

22. California Environmental Information Catalog [CEIC]
The California Environmental Information Catalog is an online directory for reporting and discovery of information resources for California. Participants include cities, counties, utilities, state ...

23. DataONE R Client [dataone_r]
The DataONE R Client is an R package that provides read/write access to data and metadata from the DataONE network of Member Node data repositories. Member Nodes in DataONE are independent data repositories ...

24. Desert Landscaping, Plants for a Water-Scare Environment, A Multimedia CD-ROM [01-Desert_Landscape-CD-00]
(Summary adapted from the Desert Landscaping web site) Desert Landscaping : Plants for a Water-Scarce Environment is a multimedia CD-ROM plant selector covering over 600 low water-use plants. Search ...

25. Carbon Query and Evaluation Support Tools (CQUEST) [NASA_CASA_CQUEST]
The Carbon Query and Evaluation Support Tools (CQUEST) provides access to geographic data from NASA Ames Research Center, Ecosystem Science and Technology Branch for carbon sequestration ...

26. Command-line Conversion Utility used to Convert HDF-EOS Version 2.x files to HDF-EOS Version 5.x. [heconvert]
heconvert is a command-line conversion utility used to convert HDF-EOS Version 2.x files to HDF-EOS Version 5.x. Upon successful completion of heconvert there will exist a fully qualified HDF-EOS ...

27. Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (DGVM) [NASA_CASA_DGVM]
A Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (DGVM) has been developed as a new feature of the NASA-CASA (Carnegie Ames Stanford Approach) ecosystem production and trace gas model (Potter and Klooster. ...

28. Mapx: Map Transformations Library [MAPX]
Mapx is a coordinate transformation library developed at NSIDC. The C code was initially developed from equations given by Snyder (1982) and tested against the examples in ...

29. NASA-CASA Biosphere Model - Interannual simulations for the 1980's [NASA_CASA_BiosphereModel]
The NASA-CASA Biosphere Model predicts annual global fluxes in terrestrial net primary production (NPP) at 47-60 Pg C, depending on the yearly conditions, with over 70% of terrestrial ...

30. TerraViva SEDAC Data Viewer [CIESIN_SEDAC_TERRAVIVA]
2011 TerraViva! SEDAC Viewer has been updated with a wide range of new SEDAC data. This map viewer and standalone software application (Microsoft Windows-based) uses a powerful data-viewing engine ...

31. Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) [FEWS]
The Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) provides the infrastructure for African countries and regional organizations to manage risk of food insecurity through the provision of timely and analytical ...

32. Group on Earth Observations and Global Earth Observation System of Systems [GEO-International]
Launched at the first Earth Observation Summit in Washington in July 2003, the intergovernmental ad hoc Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is tasked with developing a ten-year implementation plan for ...

33. National Geophysical Data Center Interactive Map Services [NGDC_MAPS]
The National Geophysical Data Center interactive map services provide visual display of one or more data layers, often with links to download the underlying data. Users can view layers ...

34. Spatial Decision Support Knowledge Portal [INSTITUTE_REDLANDS_SDS]
The SDS Knowledge Portal is developed to help people involved in a spatial decision process (decision makers, practitioners, researchers) gain a holistic view of the spatial decision process and better ...

35. Columbia Earthscape [Earthscape]
Columbia Earthscape is an integrated, interdisciplinary resource that connects the Earth and environmental sciences with their social, political, and economic dimensions. Although it primarily serves ...

36. The Learning Web [Learning_Web]   CHILD SERFs
The Learning Web, a portion of the USGS website, is dedicated to K-12 education and life-long learning. Explore things on, in, around and about the Earth such as land, water, plants and animals, and ...

37. Hazard and Disasters Data Selection Tool [NASA_EOSDIS_HAZARDS_DISASTERS]   PARENT SERF
Approximately 40 LANCE products from the MODIS, AIRS, and OMI instruments have been selected to support users in the monitoring and analysis of a variety of man-made and natural hazards and disasters. ...

38. Terrestrial Observation and Prediction System (TOPS) [NASA_ARC_TOPS]
The Terrestrial Observation and Prediction System (TOPS) modeling software system that brings together technologies in information technology, weather/climate forecasting, ecosystem modeling, and ...

39. The Harvard Geospatial Library [hgl]
The Harvard Geospatial Library (HGL) is a catalog and repository of geospatial data materials held by Harvard University. HGL allows users to search for relevant geospatial data sets and publications ...

40. Worldview - NASA EOSDIS Tool To Interactively Browse Full-resolution Global, Near Real-time Spacecraft Imagery [NASA_EOSDIS_WORLDVIEW]
The tool from NASA's EOSDIS provides the capability to interactively browse full-resolution, global, near real-time spacecraft imagery from 3 (eventually 30+) data products from LANCE. This will support ...

41. ESIP Semantic Portal [ESIP_SEMANTIC_PORTAL]
The Federation of Earth Science Information Partners?s ESIP-Portal is a customized version of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology?s BioPortal application, and is used for accessing and sharing ...

42. ISRO Data Portal: A Gateway to Earth Observation Systems and Planetary Sciences [ISRO_dataportal]   CHILD SERFs
The ISRO Data Portal is an effort to harmonize all the Geospatial efforts of ISRO/DOS Centres through a common gateway ? an environment to enhance the outreach besides providing value added services ...

43. FLAMINGO: The Simple Interactive Mapviewer [FLAMINGO_GIS]
Flamingo is a simple interactive mapviewer, no more no less. But this limitation is also the strongest point of Flamingo. With only a handful of tool buttons users can easily use a map. Flamingo offers ...

44. The Encyclopedia of Earth [EOE]
The Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) is an electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of ...

45. GeoTools Open Source Java GIS Toolkit [GEOTOOLS]
Geotools is an open source Java GIS toolkit for developing standards compliant solutions. It provides an implementation of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications as they are developed. Geotools ...

46. MDweb - A Tool for Cataloging and Locating Environmental Resources on the Web [MDWEB]
MDweb is an open source generic tool designed for such distributed collaborative work. It provides a web service to catalog, and help others locate resources, documents, and services for geographic ...

47. Minerva - Open-Source Program for Viewing Geospatial Data [Minerva]
Minerva is an open-source program for viewing geospatial data that works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It unifies standard GIS capabilities with high-performance, 3D visualization. Minerva's primary ...

48. Object User Interface (OUI): An Environmental Resource Modeling Framework [USGS_OUI]
The Object User Interface (OUI) is a map-based framework for models and modeling data. It provides a common interface for running models, as well as acquiring, browsing, organizing, displaying, and ...

49. The Climate TimeLine Information Tool: "Exploring Weather & Climate Change Through the Powers of 10" [NCDC_CLIMATE_TIMELINE]
"http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ctl/" Designed as an online tool allowing users to examine climate change and variability at different time scales, the Climate TimeLine has been developed through ...

50. ncISO - Tools that Facilitates the Generation of ISO 19115-2 Metadata from Data in NetCDF [ncISO]
ncISO is a package of tools that facilitates the generation of ISO 19115-2 metadata from NetCDF data sources stored in a THREDDS data server (TDS) catalog. There are currently two tools available, ...

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