Goals for Unidata data access infrastructure

36.0 Goals for Unidata data access infrastructure

The next 5 years will be challenging for Unidata's data access infrastructure efforts.

Our efforts will be focused on incremental innovations to:

Manage a graceful transition from a simple data model (netCDF-3) to the enhanced Common Data Model of netCDF-4
Provide better support for remote access and server-side data data analysis
Respond to the need to faithfully represent observational data as well as gridded data
Scale up to handle larger volumes of data efficiently
Serve a larger user community wishing to integrate satellite products, geospatial data, observations, and model outputs from growing archives