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Discussion Questions:
- What are the most important data products and services provided by NASA for Terrestrial Ecology, Biodiversity and Applied Sciences — and why?
- How should our community set priorities for data products and services?
- How do we evaluate the quality and relevance of the data products and services provided by NASA?
- Are there data and information products and/or services needed by the community that should be provided by NASA?
- Should NASA be archiving and making its models and source code publicly available?
- How do NASA's data and information systems link to the land measurements team; do these two breakout groups need to interact?
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Tuesday morning's Break-out report by this group included a question about whether or not some data products should be made available to the public. I would like to comment on that question.
I work for Peter Hildebrand and Darrel Williams in the NASA GSFC Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, particularly on Landsat and MODIS, as an Education and Outreach Specialist. I am in partnership with USGS, the National Council for Geographic Education, and Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) to bring remote sensing to existing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) education for workforce development at two-year colleges, on a national scale.
NASA's data is a precious national resource for education and workforce development. Well known to education researchers is the fact that at the heart of excellent education is faculty and learner access to data. Learners who can ask questions of data, and manipulate data to answer those questions experience and learn to appreciate science itself and are able to move into the workforce with meaningfully enhanced skills.
Obviously my answer to your question is yes, to whatever extent the Data and Information Systems and Processing community can make NASA data accessible and put it into formats that are EASY for the layperson to use will make extremely important contributions to education and workforce development. Please contact me if I can support this effort in any way.
– submitted by Jeannette (Jeannie) Allen at 2006-08-22 08:34:03 |
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