NASA's Mission to Planet Earth

• Figure 1: EOSDIS in Context
• Figure 2: EOSDIS Network Strategy
• Figure 3: EOSDIS-Sponsored Data Centers
• Figure 4: EOSDIS Command and Control

EOSDIS Independent Architecture Study

• The Engineering of Large-Scale Information Systems
  by Larry Kerschberg (PDF download)

• EOSDIS Data and Information Architecture(HTML)
  by L. Kerschberg, H. Gomaa, Daniel Menascé, and Jong Pil Yoon
  For an Adobe PDF Version of the document click Here
  
  Presented at the 1996 International Conference on Statistical and Scientific Databases, Stockholm, Sweden.
  
  
• EOS Software Architecture Paper (HTML)
  by Hassan Gomaa, Daniel Menascé and Larry Kerschberg
  
  Appears in Distributed Systems Engineering Journal
  
  
• Performance Oriented Method for Modeling Large Scale Data-Intensive Systems. (PDF)
  by Daniel Menascé, Hassan Gomaa, and Larry Kerschberg
  Best Paper Award at the International Conference on the Engineering of Complex Systems.
  
  
• The GMU Independent Architecture Study
  Led by Dr. Menas Kafatos and an interdisciplinary team of 27 Earth, Computer, and Information Scientists and Engineers.