About ESML

July 23, 2007 by RxR

Interchange technologies facilitate seamless interactions between applications, tools and services with datasets in heterogeneous formats. We have developed an interchange technology focused on Earth Science data in general, and particularly on the vast amounts of remotely sensed data. This interchange technology comprises of the Earth Science Markup Language (ESML) and a related library of programming utilities. ESML, based on the eXtensible Markup Language (XML), allows data format structure descriptions to be written in a standard fashion. ESML is unique in that it is not another new data format, instead it is a metadata based solution for existing formats. The effort involved to describe legacy data formats in ESML is small. ESML and the associated software library will allow wider interoperability of Earth Science services and tools, enabling Earth Scientists to work more easily with data in a variety of formats. This interchange technology will facilitate the development of data format independent search, visualization, and analysis tools.

More information plus the binary/source code is available at the ESML home page

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