Customer Survey LBA-ECO Data Users and Contributors

LBA-ECO Data Survey

LBA-ECO Data Survey
Background

To maintain the Large-Scale Biosphere Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia - Ecosystem (LBA-ECO) data sets and to meet users’ needs, the
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) would like your help in identifying issues with LBA-ECO data
or documentation, and any difficulties you experienced in locating and acquiring the data sets. Information you provide will enable us to address
issues that need attention and aspects of LBA-ECO documentation that users would like to see clarified.
            LBA-ECO Web site:   http://daac.ornl.gov/LBA/lba.shtml
            LBA-ECO List of data sets: http://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dataset_lister_new.pl?p=11

Survey: Evaluation of LBA-ECO Data Products
We would like your help in identifying issues with LBA-ECO data or documentation, and any difficulties you experienced in locating and acquiring
the data sets.
 We intend to review responses received through April 2016 and develop a plan to enhance and improve the LBA-ECO data collection.

1. What was your primary motivation for acquiring LBA-ECO data?
Direct affiliation with the LBA-ECO project
Research using the LBA-ECO data
Use of data in classroom education
No specific need

2. How have you acquired LBA-ECO data (check all that apply)?
ORNL DAAC search and order system
Earthdata search and order system (ECHO/Reverb)
Spatial Data Access Tool
THREDDS Data Server
Other, e.g., web search, directly from a LBA-ECO investigator, or other (100 character limit)

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3. What is your preferred data access mechanism?
Direct download through FTP from the ORNL DAAC
ORNL DAAC search and order (shopping cart)
GIS visualization and download (SDAT)
THREDDS - OpenDAP server
Other (please specify) (100 character limit)

4. To what extent have you used the LBA-ECO data?
Retrieved data successfully and have used the data for research
Attempted to access the data but gave up due to problems
Reviewed descriptive information about the data sets but have not accessed the data files themselves
Retrieved data successfully and have NOT used the data for research or education.

5. What did you like most about the LBA-ECO data products? (100 character limit)

6. What did you like least about the LBA-ECO data products? (100 character limit)

7. What types of LBA-ECO data are you using or would you like to use in the future? (Check all that apply)

Ground-based tabular data

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Remotely-sensed imagery data
Model output
Gridded data

8. What issues did you encounter using the data? (Please identify the data product if possible.) (100 character limit for each
answer.)

Aggregating files for your application?

Understanding the data set documentation?

Errors in the data?

Finding and acquiring the data?

Other

9. Please describe any data and data products generated from your use of the original LBA-ECO data.   If you’ve
developed new data sets, would you like them archived at the ORNL DAAC? (100 character limit)

10. Are you aware of additional LBA-ECO or other data sets that the ORNL DAAC should consider archiving and
distributing? If yes, please explain below. (100 character limit)

11. Please feel free to add any other comments that you may have about the LBA-ECO data or other biogeochemical data
of interest to you. (100 character limit)

We intend to review responses received by April 1, 2016 for our initial evaluation.
If you would like a response to an issue you raise, please provide your email address. We follow NASA's Privacy Policy.

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12. Optional:
Name: 
Phone: 
Email:

Paperwork Reduction Act Statement
This information collection meets the requirements of 44 U.S.C §3507 as amended by section 2 of the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995.  The OMB control number for this collection is 2700-0153 and this information collection expires on 07/31/2018. We
estimate that it will take less than 30 minutes to read the instructions, gather information, and answer the questions.  Send
comments relating to our time estimate only to: [email protected]
Questions? Contact:
User Services Office
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://daac.ornl.gov

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