THE IMAGING NODE FOR THE PLANETARY DATA SYSTEM

The Planetary Data System Imaging Node maintains and distributes the a rchives of planetary image data acquired from NASA's flight projects w ith the primary goal of enabling the science community to perform imag e processing and analysis on the data. The Node provides direct and ea sy access to the digital image archives through wide distribution of t he data on CD-ROM media and on-line remote-access tools by way of Inte rnet services. The Node provides digital image processing tools and th e expertise and guidance necessary to understand the image collections . The data collections, now approaching one terabyte in volume, provid e a foundation for remote sensing studies for virtually all the planet ary systems in our solar system (except for Pluto). The Node is respon sible for restoring data sets from past missions in danger of being lo st. The Node works with active flight projects to assist in the creati on of their archive products and to ensure that their products and dat a catalogs become an integral part of the Node's data collections.