About the OPeNDAP project
| OPeNDAP | The initial partners in the OPeNDAP project. |
| OPeNDAP Partners | The current partners in the OPeNDAP project. |
| OPeNDAP Funding | The current sources of funding for the OPeNDAP project |
OPeNDAP
DODS(Distributed Oceangraphic Data System) development started as a joint effort between staff and scientists at the University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Science .
OPeNDAP Partners
As part of the NASA funded OPeNDAP project, the following organizations are working on specific aspects of the OPeNDAP project.
- American Geophysical Union: explore online, electronic publishing; support OPeNDAP at AGU conferences
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: software architecture
- NASA/Global Change Master Directory: use of international directory as a DODS catalog service
- NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory: access to PO/DAAC data; design and implementation of DODS-HDF and DODS-IDL core software; Java port of core software
- NCAR/High Altitude Observatory: access to solar physics data; IDL user interface design and implementation; ANSI core and catalog server design; development of DODS server filters for specific data formats for support of HAO datasets: CEDAR and FITS
- NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory: data fusion with Ferret
- Collegeof Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University: access to surface drifter data
- UCAR/Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications Program: project management
- UCAR/Unidata Program Center: user support services
- University of Illinois/NCSA: facilitate access to large, gridded datasets
- University of Maine/School of Marine Sciences: MATLAB user interface design and implementation
- University of Rhode Island/Graduate School of Oceanography: design, develop, and implement the DODS core software and populate data servers
OPeNDAP Funding
Funding for OPeNDAP development comes from NASA's Creative and Innovative Prototype Earth Science Information Partnerships in Support of Earth System Science program under grant number NCC5307. The NASA Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Federation is made up of a number of ESIPs. DODS/OPeNDAP is a level 2 ESIP.
Other support has come from NASA's Applied Information Systems Research program under grant number NAGW 3890, NOAA under grant number NA760C0512, and NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences, Physical Oceanography under grant number OCE9617804.