"development and deployment of a ceop satellite data server" the coordinated enhanced observing period (ceop) was initially motivated by the world climate research program (wcrp) global energy and…

"development and deployment of a ceop satellite data server" the coordinated enhanced observing period (ceop) was initially motivated by the world climate research program (wcrp) global energy and water cycle experiment (gewex) international efforts focusing on the measurement, understanding, and modeling of water and energy cycles within the climate system. NASA is one of contributing agencies of ceop. One key objective of ceop is to use the enhanced observations to better document and simulate water and energy fluxes and reservoirs over land on diurnal to annual temporal scales and to better predict these on temporal scales up to seasonal for water resource applications. Data integration is essential to the ceop community, as they need to access multiple types of data such as in-situ, satellite remote sensing and modeling output data from many sources and inter-compare data. Data integration requires the CO-registration of diverse data from multiple sources. Multiple tools and services are needed to perform data integration. Some of the data services needed for data integration include data search and access, format translation, reprojection and regridding, subsampling and subsetting, data interpolation, temporal interpolation, geometric rectification, and more detailed data comparisons. Currently the ceop scientists lack the tools to access the satellite data with the data services needed to support intercomparison of data. The ceop satellite data server will take two existing technologies, the OGC web coverage server and the opendap and interconnect them, leveraging the geospatial processing capabilities of the OGC web coverage server with the transparent data access to opendap - enabled science data applications and analysis clients used by most of ceop scientists. This will enable greater interoperability and data flow and access to distributed data sources of EOS L1B/L2 and higher-level processed products by existing science communities. The ceop satellite data server will provide an intelligent GEO-rectification and regridding service, allowing remote processing and intelligent subsetting on the data and reducing the amount of data transferred over the network. The server will provide reprojection, and resampling capabilities as well. The ceop satellite data server is based on an existing proof-of-concept prototype, leveraging existing information technologies in the OGC web services and opendap.