The NSSTC is home to a NASA Earth Science data center, the Global Hydrology Resource Center, which is a collaboration between MSFC and UAHunstville. One of the activities at the GHRC is generation of standard swath and gridded products for the AMSR-E passive microwave instrument aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite. This talk will introduce two new projects at the AMSR-E Science Investigator-led Processing Center. Since October, the AMSR-E SIPS has been processing and distributing swath and daily products in near-real time, generally within three hours of observation. This portion of the talk will discuss what products are available and how to get them. The SIPS is a co-investigator in a research project involving data provenance or lineage. The second portion of the talk will introduce the concept of “science-relevant provenance” and describe the approach to collecting, storing and making provenance information available to science data users.

Helen Conover is a senior researcher at UAHuntsville’s Information Technology and Systems Center, where she has worked for many years in collaboration with the NASA/MSFC Earth Science Department to define and develop innovative solutions for data and information management, distributed data systems, data systems standards, and data access and analysis services.