PDS: The Planetary Data SystemPDS Standards Reference
The following is version 3.8 of the PDS Standards Reference, dated February 27, 2009.
* indicates a change in this part of document since the previous version dated March 20, 2006.
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Title Page*Table of Contents*
Change Log*
Chapter 1 - Introduction*
Chapter 2 - Cartographic Standards*
Chapter 3 - Data Type Values and Data File Storage Formats
Chapter 4 - Data Objects and Products
Chapter 5 - Data Product Labels*
Chapter 6 - Data Set/Data Set Collection Contents and Naming*
Chapter 7 - Date/Time Format*
Chapter 8 - Directory Types and Naming*
Chapter 9 - Documents
Chapter 10 - File Specification and Naming*
Chapter 11 - Media Formats for Data Submission and Archive*
Chapter 12 - Object Description Language (ODL) Specification and Usage*
Chapter 13 - PDS Objects
Chapter 14 - Pointer Usage
Chapter 15 - Record Formats
Chapter 16 - SFDU Usage
Chapter 17 - Usage of N/A, UNK, and NULL
Chapter 18 - Units of Measurement
Chapter 19 - Volume Organization and Naming*
Chapter 20 - (Zip Compression) is now included as section 6 of Appendix I (Data Compression Formats)*
Appendix A - Data Object Definitions*
Appendix B - Complete PDS Catalog Object Template Set*
Appendix C - Internal Representation of Data Types
Appendix D - Examples of Required Files
Appendix E - NAIF Toolkit Directory Structure
Appendix F - Acronyms and Abbreviations
Appendix G - SAVED Data
Appendix H - PDS Data Group Definitions
Appendix I - Data Compression Formats
Index*
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