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CONTENTSReport of 1993 CEOS Plenary
CEOS/IGBP-DIS Pilot Project on Data Exchange
High Resolution Data Coverage for CEOS/IGBP-DIS Pilot Project
CEOS Working Group on Data (WGD)
CEOS Working Group on Calibration and Validation (WGCV)
Introduction of CEOS Community Locator System (CCLS)---This page
Report of 1993 CEOS Plenary (continued from page 1)
Requirements for Participation in CEOS
News Highlights
1994 CEOS Meeting Calendar
Introduction of CEOS Community Locator System (CCLS)
Shin-ichi Sobue
Earth Observation Center
National Space Development Agency of Japan
The CEOS Community Locator System (CCLS) is a CEOS mailing database system to promote easy and reliable contact information access for earth observation data users to exchange the various information related CEOS activity such as CEOS newsletter, minutes, agenda, etc. in the CEOS community.
- CCLS collects, archives, manages and distributes the contact information
of CEOS members of each space agency and other earth observation personals
in the world. The contact information contains name, orgnization, country,
address, phone number, fax number, electrical mail address and participating
working group name.
This CCLS is interactive system without training, allows users to retrieve the contact information by using name, organization, country and working group name and also allows to access with username "CEOSCL" and password "PERSON" by using internet, dial-up and packet switching digital network. To maintain contact information, CEOS secretariat send the correct information to NASDA by using internet and NASDA updates it routinely. The CCLS is installed into VAX computer at Earth Observation Center. Access methods are shown below.
a. Internet
TCP/IP: %telnet nsaeoc.eoc. nasda.go.jp(133.56.72.1)
DECnet: $set host nsaeoc(41950)
b. Packet switching digital network
DTE number:44014437216
c. Dail up
Dail:81-492-96-6400
Set modem to: 8bits, No parity check, 1 stop bit, Xon/off, 1200-9600bps
After log-in successfuly, the CCLS will be run automatically and prompt
for entering search condition such as working group name, organization,
country, and name will be displayd. After entering search condition, the
system will retrieve database and result will be displayed when the retrieval
is completed. The result displayed format is shown in Fig.-1. The CCLS
has a capability to extract the search result to file with displayed format
on users terminal, e-mail distribution format, or post-mail distribution
format and also allows to users get the extraction fole by e-mail or FTP.
This first version of CCLS was developed and already contains the contact
information of the representative for CEOS WGD/Network Subgroup by STA/NASDA.
Now CCLS stands on the first evaluation phase by CEOS WGD/NS participants
to study the functionality, performance etc. since last January. CCLS will
be upgraded and be full in operation starting from the middle of this year.
NASDA prepares the user's manual of CCLS. If you would like to know CCLS
in detail, please contact with the following NASDA's staff.
Information System office
Earth Observation Center
National Space Development Agence of Japan
1401 Numanoue, Hatoyama-machi, Hiki-gun, Saitama 350-03, Japan
Fax: 81-492-98-1001
E-mail: nasdaprod@nsaeoc.eoc.nasda.go.jp
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