Observations Data Model 2: A community information model for spatially discrete Earth observations

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 79, Issue , 2016, Pages 55-74

  Horsburgh, Jeffery S ^a   Aufdenkampe, Anthony K ^b   Mayorga, Emilio ^c   Lehnert, Kerstin A ^d   Hsu, Leslie ^d   Song, Lulin ^d   Jones, Amber Spackman ^e   Damiano, Sara G ^b   Tarboton, David G ^e   Valentine, David ^f   Zaslavsky, Ilya ^f   Whitenack, Tom ^f  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

^b STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^e UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyberinfrastructure; Data management; Data publication; Information model; Interoperability; Observations

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTEROPERABILITY; OBSERVATORIES;

CYBER INFRASTRUCTURES; DATA PUBLICATIONS; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; INFORMATION MODELING; INFORMATION REQUIREMENT; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; OBSERVATIONS; SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE;

INFORMATION THEORY;

DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; EOS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84957094466     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.01.010     Document Type: Article

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