Harvester of remote time-stamped data products(NPO-52290-1)

Ocean science and decision support applications increasingly rely on the synergistic, interdisciplinary use of multivariate/multi-parameter data from multiple distributed agency repositories. While more available, the growing variety and volume of ocean observing data combined with the heterogeneous modalities of access continue to pose a challenge to broad-scale uptake and usage. This limits the effective utilization of costly investments in sustained ocean observation by an increasing diversity of user communities with a need for such environmental information on the oceans for the assessment of climate change and other ecosystem impacts. Leveraging an advanced cloud technology stack and ongoing multi-agency pilot efforts being spearheaded by NASA, the Committee for Earth Observations (CEOS) Ocean Variables Enabling Research and Applications for GEO (Group for Earth Observations) (COVERAGE) initiative seeks to collaboratively develop the next generation data service infrastructure for a more digitally integrated ocean observing system in support of marine science and ecosystem-based management as well as furthering the use of remote sensing data in multidisciplinary science. In particular, we envision the implementation of a data services layer a top of existing agency repositories to provide more harmonized access to satellite, in-situ, and model data across a fragmented ocean data landscape with a set of value-added services that include integrated data search, visualization and analytics.