NOAA/NESDIS/ Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS).
Investment ID: 006-000320500
Overview
Program Title
NOAA/NESDIS/ Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS).
Description
The CLASS program efficiently manages high volumes (petabytes) of satellite and in situ data and automates data ingest, quality control and access. CLASS is one of several NOAA environmental data management responses to related requirements in numerous acts of legislation, including the Federal Records Act of 1950, National Climate Program Act of 1978, Global Change Research Act of 1990, Federal Data Quality Act of 2001, and Ocean and Coastal Observation System Act of 2005, and other requirements such as U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Records Management, Office of Management and Budget, and Federal Geographic Data Committee Regulations and standards. As part of that response, CLASS currently provides Open Archival information System Reference Model standard storage and online access to NOAA large-array satellite data and satellite-derived products.
Type of Program
Major IT Investments
Multi-Agency Category
Not Applicable
Associated Websites
http://www.class.noaa.gov
Investment Detail
As an enterprise solution, CLASS will reduce anticipated cost growth associated with storing environmental datasets by providing common services for acquisition, security, and project management for the IT system supporting NOAA Archives, consolidating stove-pipe, legacy archival storage systems and, lastly, relieving data owners of archival storage-related system development and operations issues. The ROI over the 16 year life of the investment is $6,400M.