The Data and Information System of the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia - LBA
Luiz
M.
Horta, Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos (CPTEC/INPE), horta@cptec.inpe.br
(Presenting)
Merilyn
J.
Gentry, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Tennesse, mgentry2@utk.edu
(Presenting)
Larry
D.
Voorhees, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Distributed Active Archive Center, voorheesld@ornl.gov
(Presenting)
Laurindo
C.
Santos, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, lcampos@inpa.gov.br
(Presenting)
The Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Project in Amazonia (LBA) is an
international research study led by Brazil. Investigators include field
researchers and modelers from the U.S., South America, and Europe.
Beija-flor provides a centralized access point to data sets acquired
for and produced by LBA researchers and was developed to support:
- Early data exchange among the investigators
- Widely diverse data, in both content and format
- Data discovery and retrieval, using fielded, free-text, geospatial,
and temporal searches
Though Beija-flor is a proprietary-based system, its adherence to FGDC
metadata standards and the use of XML code allow most of the Beija-flor
metadata fields to be understood by other search engines and indexing
systems, as well as provide for platform/software-independent creation and maintenance of metadata files.