# Presentation: 921355

## Environmental ServicesData and Information Management (ESDIM) Program

- Ida Hakkarinen, Howard Diamond, Eric Davis
- December 11, 2003

**NOAA Satellite and Information Services**
- National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Services

## Agenda

- Background/History
- Program Mission and Themes
- ESDIM Process
- Some ESDIM Projects of Note
- ESDIM Budget History
- NESDIS Approaches for ESDIM

## Background

- Program Established in 1991
- Two catalyst reports
- NOAA Advisory Panel on Climate and Global Change, 1989
- GAO report, *Environmental Data: Major Effort Needed to Improve NOAA's Data Management and Archiving, *1990

## Program Mission

- The Earth System Data and Information Management (ESDIM) Program has been instituted to *coordinate and oversee activities NOAA-wide* to improve data and information management.
- The ESDIM Program will promote a modern approach to systems, operations, and services that will meet the needs of NOAA’s broad spectrum of users in the 1990's and beyond.
- A primary objective of the ESDIM Program is to provide coordination and build consensus for data and information management throughout NOAA.
- Dr. John A. Knauss
- NOAA Administrator
- September 1992

## Program Themes

***Data Access*** - Projects that facilitate the user’s ability to discover, retrieve, or manipulate data.
***Data Rescue*** - Projects that contribute to the preservation of the environmental record through the identification of data at risk, acquisition of data sets that extend the data record, conversion from non-digital to digital media, and cataloging and documenting such data sets.
***Data Quality and Continuity*** -  Existing data records are often characterized by instrument- or procedurally-induced discontinuities and errors that mask these underlying natural variations and/or man-made changes.  Projects in this theme support the improvement in the quality and continuity of NOAA’s long-term data sets.
***Innovation*** - Projects that exploit new technologies and new software methodologies. Innovative, but at a relatively low risk.

## ESDIM Process

- ESDIM Team includes representatives from NOAA Line/Program Offices (6 total)
- Two stage review process:
- Letters of Intent – Information about what will be proposed if selected for Proposal stage.
- Team meets to review LOIs, recommends ones for full proposal development  (typically 2x expected budget dollars)
- Proposal – Complete information, including budget, personnel, and thorough description of project.
- Proposals ranked by vote.  (Each LO/PO has only one vote.)  Number of proposals selected determined by available budget.

## Some ESDIM Projects of Note

- Data Access and Data Rescue at NCDC, NGDC, and NODC
- Digital Shoreline Data Rescue and Access
- Prototype Satellite Active Archive
- West Coast Salmon GIS
- Digital Environmental Sensitivity Index
- Global Ocean Database Project
- PORTS Implementation
- NOAA Web Theme Pages
- GOES and NEXRAD Data Rescue
- NOS Spatial Index and Map Finder
- NWS Climate Data Continuity Project
- Honolulu Laboratory Data Rescue
- NOAAServer (metadata)
- NGI Based, Direct Digital Ingest and Archive of WSR-88D Data (CRAFT)
- NOMADS

## ESDIM Program Management

- 1991 - Deputy Assistant Administrator for Environmental Information Services (EIS) position created in NESDIS
- Environmental Information Services (EIS) Program Office formed;  provided administrative management of program funds for NOAA; “grants process” to NOAA LOs
- 2000 – reversion to single DAA position in NESDIS
- CIO position created – “Office of the CIO” formed from two existing offices (Information Tech Management and EIS)

## OCIO Expenditure Profile 

**Notes:**
Office of the CIO formed from Information Technology Management Office and Environmental Information Services Program Office in 2000.
ESDIM -  approx $ 7 M
CLASS – approx $ 2.6 M
NVDS – approx $ 2.5 M

## Data Management Funding 

## ESDIM Grants 1991-2003

## ESDIM Grants 1991-2003

## ESDIM Grants 1991-2003

## Funding by Program Theme

## ESDIM Funding

## ESDIM Funding

## Grants by NESDIS Center/LO 1991-2002

## NESDIS Approaches for ESDIM

- Identify CLASS-related needs across Offices/Centers
- Concentrate NEDIS Letters of Intent in activities that support CLASS needs
- Provide informational briefing on CLASS to NOAA ESDIM team
- Continue use of “internal review board” for LOIs and Proposals