The NOAO Science Data Management Group
The NOAO Science Data Management Group (SDM) has an initial mandate to meet the immediate data management needs of NOAO and its community. These needs include the management of data from current and near-term NOAO facilities.
For the time frame of 2009/2010, SDM is directed to address the following four core areas:
- Data Management Systems Operations
- Raw data capture and storage for all current NOAO instruments
- Wide-field imager data processing for NOAO 4m telescopes
- Operation of the existing NOAO Archive for raw and reduced data retrieval (in preparation for DECam)
- Data Management Systems Development
- System and archive development for DECam
- Support for the DES Community Pipeline
- Science Data Processing
- Legacy IRAF support including release and platform support
- Applications support for DECam
- Science User Support
- Data Handbook updates, Data Dictionaries, NEWFIRM cookbook
- Help Desk Management
SDM has resulted from the reorganization of the former NOAO Data Products Program (DPP). The near-term focus of SDM is critical to the success of these important NOAO projects.
