APPS provides a multi-mission instrument data and metadata (i.e. label) transformation service that interfaces local or remote Mission Data provider’s data processing pipeline/end-products and the PDS (Planetary Data System) data archive to ensure compliance to standards in a schedule/cost-efficient manner (i.e. streamline the delivery of data between the missions and the PDS). In turn, this supports data format independence for instrument data (including, but not limited to, imaging), which improves data access and discovery for instrument Principal Investigators, scientists, and general users within the PDS4 architecture.
The APPS streamlines delivery of science data to the PDS (end-to-end pipeline to do PDS archiving), provides a multi-mission science data transformation service that connects product generation pipelines and the PDS archive, and ensures compliance to PDS4 standards.
The first PDS archiving pipeline includes PDS4 Label Design Tool (LDT), Transformation Service, Validation Service, Reporting Service, and PDS4 Bundle Builder. APPS improves the efficiency (e.g. reduce cost to projects) and reliability of providing mission data to the PDS and contributes to the usability of PDS data.
This work was done by Costin Radulescu, Stirling S. Algermissen, Steven R. Levoe, Elizabeth D. Rye, Elias M. Sayfi, Sean H. Hardman, John S. Hughes, and Michael D. Cayanan of Caltech for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This software is available for license through the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and you may request a license here . NPO-49793
