Current Environmental Data Challenges
Environmental data producers provide domain-specific data in product- and producer-specific formats, based on existing production guidelines.
- Effect: Constructs of environmental data/products are often incompatible across domain boundaries, making reuse and interchange difficult
- Effect: Users tailor such data and create application- and platform-specific environmental data sets
Creation, update, and tailoring for reuse of environmental data are resource-intensive and expensive (and have high recurring costs)
Many systems, missions, and applications require the integration of data
- from many sources
- that cross domain boundaries
Regardless of what format(s) or product(s) are utilized, to efficiently and methodically change, update, modify, or add environmental data (for systems or sub-systems), users must represent all of their data in a unified manner