The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) funded by NASA is pleased to present the Winter 2008 issue of the ORNL DAAC Newsletter.

Are you planning to share your data with other investigators or submit data to an archive for public distribution?

In an ongoing effort to improve services to our customers, the ORNL NASA DAAC is pleased to announce that the Earth Observing System (EOS) Data Gateway (EDG) will be replaced in mid-2008, with WIST (Warehouse Inventory Search Tool) for the EOS Clearing House (ECHO).

The ORNL DAAC web site will be unavailable between 7:30 a.m. and 8:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time (EST), on Wednesday, February 6, 2008 due to scheduled hardware and software maintenance activities.

The ORNL NASA DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the new version of our Mercury Advanced Search tool. Mercury is a harvest, search, distribution, and data discovery system. From Mercury, you can search the ORNL DAAC's data holdings using:

The ORNL NASA DAAC announces the beta release of the MODIS Global Subsetting and Visualization Tool for Collection 5. This tool provides custom subsets of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Land products in ASCII format on demand for any location on Earth.

The ORNL DAAC web site will be unavailable between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time (EST), on Monday, November 12, 2007 due to scheduled hardware and software maintenance activities.

The ORNL NASA DAAC is pleased to announce the public beta test release of the new version of our Mercury Advanced Search tool. Mercury is a harvest, search, distribution, and data discovery system.

The ORNL DAAC web site will be unavailable between 9:00 a.m. and 9:15 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 due to scheduled hardware and software maintenance activities.