STATEMENT OF WORK Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) for the EOS Data and Information System (EOSDIS) August 2017 1 Table of Contents 1 Introduction 3 1.1 The Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) 3 1.2 The Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) Project 3 1.3 The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) 3 1.4 Goals 4 2 Scope 4 3 Task Descriptions 6 3.1 Data Set Acquisition & Processing 6 3.2 External Interfaces 8 3.3 Information and Data System Management 8 3.4 Operations and Maintenance 9 3.5 User Services 10 3.6 Web Presence and Support 11 3.7 Mission Support 11 3.8 Special Projects Support 12 3.9 Institutional Support 12 3.10 Facility Services 13 3.11 Reporting 14 3.12 Additional Information 15 4 Applicable Documents 16 5 General Contract Deliverables 16 6 INFORMATION AND COMMUNNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT) 17 2 Introduction The Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) The EOSDIS is a key core capability in NASA’s Earth Science Data Systems Program. It provides end-to-end capabilities for managing NASA’s Earth science data from various sources such as satellites, aircraft, field measurements, and various other programs. It provides the research and educational communities with easy and reliable access to the full suite of Earth science data from NASA instruments on U.S. and international platforms. It promotes an understanding of the interactive physical, geological, and social processes that regulate the total Earth system. As NASA's Earth science data system, EOSDIS provides command and control, scheduling, data processing and data archiving and distribution services for the Earth Observing System (EOS) missions. The EOSDIS science operations uses a distributed architecture with functions performed at many interconnected nodes including Science Investigator-led Processing Systems and multiple NASA Earth science distributed active archive centers located across the US with specific responsibilities for producing, archiving, and distribution of Earth-science data products. The Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) Project The NASA Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) Project is a part of NASA’s Earth Science Projects Division under the Flight Projects Directorate at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The ESDIS Project is responsible for: The development and operation of the EOSDIS. Processing, archiving, and distributing Earth-science satellite data (e.g., land, ocean, and atmosphere data products). Providing tools to facilitate the processing, archiving, and distribution of Earth-science data. Collecting metrics and user-satisfaction data to learn how to continue improving services provided to users. Ensuring scientists and the public access to data to enable the study of Earth from space to advance scientific understanding and to meet societal needs The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) NASA and EOSDIS support a very large, inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research community for Earth science. Supporting this research community is a fundamental task of the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) DAAC. The SAR DAAC will need to communicate regularly with Earth research science and instrument teams. A committee of experts in the field of Earth science serves to monitor and provide recommendations to NASA’s ESDIS Project and the SAR DAAC on current and future performance at the DAAC. As one of the EOSDIS DAACs, the SAR DAAC is responsible for collecting, processing, archiving, and distributing a wide variety of space-borne and airborne radar data, including synthetic aperture radar data, as assigned by NASA necessary for Earth science research. SAR data products assigned to and/or archived at the SAR DAAC includes: 3 NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) L-Band Radar (launch expected Dec. 2021) European Space Agency Sentinel 1A, 1B (2014 - present). NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Radar (2015 - present). JAXA Advanced Land Observing Satellite PALSAR (2006 – 2011). JAXA Japanese Earth Resources Satellite JERS-1 (1991 – 1998). European Space Agency ERS-1 (1991 – 1997). European Space Agency ERS-2 (1995 – 2011). Canadian Space Agency RADARSAT-1 (1995 – 2008). NASA JPL Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AIRSAR). NASA JPL UAVSAR Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) and Interferometric SAR (InSAR) products. NASA JPL Seasat. The SAR DAAC currently maintains an archive of nearly 3 petabytes of synthetic aperture radar data and related products for discovery, search and download by the earth science community and is expected to grow at a rate in excess of 50 petabytes per year during the life of the NASA- ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission. This wide variety of SAR data products supports NASA-sponsored scientific applications including oceanography, geology, glaciology, hydrology, ecology, studies of polar processes, ice motion and kinematics, geo-hazards, crustal dynamics research and biomass mapping. Goals The contractor for the SAR DAAC shall meet basic NASA and EOSDIS program goals by: Supporting NASA’s Earth science objectives and the broad SAR user community by providing access (e.g. discovery, search, browse and download) to SAR data and products archived at the DAAC. Providing operations support for acquiring, processing, archiving and distributing data for current and future missions. Providing operations support for ingesting, archiving and distribution of PolSAR and InSAR type products, e.g. UAVSAR and AIRSAR data processed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Managing the needs of the DAAC users, improving the exchange of data and information between Earth scientists and SAR data users, sharing DAAC expertise with the user community, assisting in locating and manipulating related data not archived at the DAAC, recommending to NASA data formats as well as the development and implementation of new algorithms to derive value-added SAR data products, applications and services that better serve broad user community needs. Providing support to the research and educational communities engaged in the use of SAR data products. Providing preservation content to ensure long-term stewardship of NASA data assets. Scope This Statement of Work (SOW) specifies the mission, performance objectives, and performance standards of the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC), 4 and the role of this DAAC as an institutional element within the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). Under the scope of this SOW, the contractor shall manage and operate the SAR DAAC. In doing so, the SAR DAAC contractor shall provide such provide capabilities necessary for and perform activities required to continue the operations and development of the supporting data and information system as an interoperable element of the distributed EOSDIS. Activities to be performed include systems engineering, operations and maintenance, development, user services, product generation, data and information management, data acquisition, data processing, archive and distribution of science data and products, information technology security and related science support and research activities. These activities allow the SAR DAAC to acquire, ingest, process, archive and distribute space-borne and airborne SAR data needed for NASA Earth science research, as well as related data products generated from Earth science instruments which are useful to the broader science community and educational institutions. Implementation also includes participation in the development of additional tools and capabilities needed to meet the EOSDIS requirements at all DAACs and to participate in the EOSDIS infrastructure. In the performance of tasks and activities detailed in this SOW, the SAR DAAC contractor is required to coordinate task related activities with the ESDIS Project, and as necessary, integrate efforts with ESDIS sponsored initiatives, other related activities being undertaken by EOSDIS DAACs, science data systems and other data providers, science investigator teams, the user community, as well as other EOS contractors. Since these activities are essential to the success of NASA Earth Science programs, they must be performed by an entity with demonstrable abilities and capabilities for developing and operating a science data archive and distribution center (at multi-petabyte scales); these include but are not limited to, ingesting, processing, archiving, distributing and providing user support for a broad variety of SAR data and products derived from space-borne and airborne platforms, that are useful in a large and diverse range of scientific disciplines and applications including but not limited to oceanography, geology, glaciology, hydrology, ecology, studies of polar processes, ice motion and kinematics, geo-hazards, crustal dynamics research and biomass mapping. 5 Task Descriptions The SAR DAAC contractor shall provide all required capabilities and undertake all activities necessary to manage, maintain and provide continued operations of the SAR DAAC including, but not limited to dataset acquisition and processing, information and data system management, operations and maintenance, user services, mission support, external interfaces, special projects support, institutional support, facilities services, and reporting as detailed in the following tasks. Data Set Acquisition & Processing The SAR DAAC contractor shall maintain