Product Coherency and Standardisation

• Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC or content standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata)

• Global Change Master Directory (GCMD, a directory of Earth Sciences data and services and its Directory Interchange Format - DIF -)

• ISO 19115: 2003, Geographic information - Metadata (International Organization for Standardization, for purchase)

• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

• NETCDF format (Unidata Network Common Data Form)

• COARDS convention for the standardization of NetCDF files (Cooperative Ocean/Atmosphere Research Data Service)

• CF metadata convention for the standardization of NetCDF files (Climate and Forecast)

• CF conformance requirements and recommendations

• CF standard name table

• UNIDATA THREDDS technology (Thematic Realtime Environmental Distributed Data Services)

• Opendap distribution technology

• The GrADS Data Server

• LAS visualisation technology

• OpenGIS technology

• MapServer technology

Data Centers

For other data levels (upper), please refer to Mersea product pages: full catalogue and others,
altimetry, sea surface temperature, ocean color and sea ice.

• Aviso/Ssalto/Duacs (Cnes)

• Cersat (Ifremer)

• EUMETSAT Ocean and Sea Ice (O&SI) SAF

• Eu-GDAC (European Global Data Analysis Center)

• Coaps (Noaa)

• Po.Daac (NASA-JPL)

• RSS (NASA)

• EOS Data Services (NASA)

• IODE (International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange)

• National Virtual Ocean Data System (NVODS)

• IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library

• Opendap master data set list

• List of DODS datasets

• The DODS/ Global Change Master Directory

• Global Change Master Directory (GCMD, a directory of Earth Sciences Data and Services)

• Sea-Search (gateway to Oceanographic and Marine Data & Information in Europe)

• Global Observing Systems Information Center (GOSIC)

• Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS)

• Physical Oceanographic Real Time Systems (PORTS)

• Center for Spatial Information Science at the University of Tokyo

Browse Images

• Mersea web services

• LAS @ AVISO

• LAS @ IFREMER

• Earth Images @ ESA

• Earth View @ ESA

• Earth Observation Orbits @ ESA

• POET and NEREIDS @ PO.DAAC

• Ocean color @ NASA/GSFC

• MODIS level 2 Ocean Browse Images @ NASA/GSFC

• MODIS Browse Images @ NASA/NSIDC

• Sea Ice @ NASA/NSIDC

• NCDC climate visualisation

• NCEP climate data (reanalysis)

• Table of LAS servers (non exhaustive)

• TerraSIP Map Server

• NOAA Coastwatch

• Physical Oceanographic Real Time Systems (PORTS)

• USGS RESEARCH SITE FOR SFPORTS

• U.S. Fish and WildLife Service