COMPUTING, DATA AND SOFTWARE (CDS) FACILITY

EOL's Computing, Data and Software (CDS) Facility is responsible for developing and maintaining the integrity, capability, flexibility and currency of the computing infrastructure, data and metadata services, collaborative tools and software engineering of the EOL, guided by and in service of our community. CDS fosters scientific research through simple and timely community access to all data collected by EOL observing facilities and the software tools used for data access. CDS develops and maintains data management tools and field catalogs, manages the EOL data archives and fulfills data orders for all EOL platforms as well as data from other groups and agencies. CDS develops and maintains state-of-the-art software systems that connect observing platform datastreams to scientific research for integration, analysis, assimilation and validation with data from other platforms, models and scientific disciplines.