Data And Information Access Link (DIAL)
DIAL is a web-based distributed system to search, access and visualization
satellite remote sensing data for Global Change research. It allows data
providers to easily serve their Earth science data directly to their users.
DIAL provides traditional catalog services like metadata search, while also
providing extended interactive data services like browsing, subsetting,
subsampling, reformatting, and direct downloading. The power of DIAL has
recently been enhanced by the addition of the EOSDIS "Version 0" protocol,
which enables a project to set up a distributed system of DIAL servers.
In collaboration with NASDA and other institutions, NASA has DIAL servers
set up to distribute satellite remote sensing data. NASA and NASDA also
collaborate on the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM); 3D data is
transferred from NASA to NASDA using TransPAC/APAN, processed and
visualized for the web.
