Data Policy and Management
NASA Data Policy |
NASA Data Policy
This policy states that there can be no period of exclusive access to the data or data products generated during the project by either an individual scientist or a science team. A short period of time for calibration, correction, and quality assessment prior to public release is permissible. Some exceptions regarding full public access may need to be established for data obtained from sources that bind users to more restrictive data policies or that are inherently sensitive in nature (e.g., commercial satellite data or confidential human-subjects data). See more on the NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy.
ABoVE Data Policy and Data Management
Data management is an important part of any NASA field campaign. The ABoVE Data Policy and Management Plan is in development. However, it is expected that all data and/or data products generated as part of an ABoVE project will be made available in a timely fashion to the ABoVE Science Team for use in other aspects of the campaign. One method to deliver data is to stage it as a common data set on the ABoVE Science Cloud. All data products created for ABoVE should also conform to the NASA Data Policy.
Much of the data collected through ABoVE will ultimately be archived and distributed by the NASA Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
ABoVE products currently available at the ORNL DAAC
