PDS: The Planetary Data SystemTools & Documentations
If you're developing a dataset in response to recent Announcement of Opportunities, you can start with the following:
Response to PDART
Response to Discovery AO
Response to SALMON-2 AO
Various tools for using and creating data are shown below. For more information and guidance in using these tools with PDS data, contact the science node for your area of research. You may also consult the PDS Phone Book to get contact information for others within the PDS community.
The PDS is developing new tools to help in finding, using and preparing PDS data. Please see an Introduction to developing a PDS4 Data set page for a listing of these resources. Please see the PDS4 Software page for core tools that are available specifically for use with PDS4 data. More PDS4 information can be found on the About page.
For a full list of software packages related to the access and use of planetary data, see the Tool Registry.
Tools for Using and Manipulating Data
- NASAView for viewing PDS products
- ISIS image manipulation package
- SPICE Toolkit for writing programs to generate observational coordinates, and for performing other geometry calculations
- UNZIP for unpacking files in ZIP archives
- Splash for tabular data display (Windows only)
- Julian Library for date conversion
- Kepler Library for computing target coordinates
- Ring Profile Library: Earth-based profile data for planetary Ring-Moon Systems
- Software Tools for reading and manipulating PDS label and data files
Guides to the Archiving Process
- Archive Preparation Guide: an overview of the archiving process
- Information for proposers about creating an instrument or data analysis proposal
- Mission Proposer's Archiving Guide (MPAG): information mission proposers need to consider while preparing a proposal to a NASA flagship, explorer pr discovery class program
- Archive cost analysis tool for estimating archiving costs
- PDS Standards Reference: technical details on PDS archiving formats and standards
- Example archive files and documents
- PDS Policy
Tools for Archive Data Preparation
- Data dictionary search to find details of keywords and values in PDS labels
- Label Template Design Tool (LTDTool), an interactive tool for designing data product labels
- Label Validation Tool (VTool), an application to aid in validating data product labels
- Planetary Science Data Dictionary provides the definitions of PDS objects and keywords
- OLAF tool for data submission
- DITDOS tools for creating archive web sites
- Catalog Template Search for viewing and retrieving PDS online catalog templates
