The intention of these scenarios is to demonstrate how data and services provided by CEOS agencies can be used to solve real problems. Prototype scenarios are listed below, and more will be added as they become available. This information may then be used to locate Landsat imagery acquired before and after those dates. Appropriate scenes can then be ordered for detailed analysis. Prototype services are listed below, and will be added as they become available.
Scientists can use the portal to browse the directory and search the distributed databases.
It will evolve over time as GOFC develops new projects and products. Note that currently very few datasets are actually produced by GOFC, but this portal provides the capability to look for datasets that are relevant to GOFC's concerns. The free-text search portal allows the user to retrieve data sets that contain words or phrases specified by the user that can appear anywhere in the data set description. Since words or phrases can appear anywhere in the text, results may not be specific to the words queried by the user. The GOFC keyword search portal represents a virtual subset of the IDN collection that contains the data sets for the particular portal requested.