An ECHO Service is a functional capability offered by the community which can be used in coordination with the ECHO system. The services are "Extended" because they are not native to ECHO. ECHO Data Services can be many different things, from dedicated machines that transform or reduce the size of data, to innovative algorithms for discovering data that is relevant to particular research topics, to offerings by organizations to gather in data. ECHO is designed to support any type of related data service, enabling more innovative approaches to meeting the EOS mission. ECHO provides interfaces and mechanisms that allow organizations to publish their services and correlate their service to the data types in the clearinghouse.
An ECHO Service Partner is an individual or organization that participates with ECHO by providing access to functions that create Earth Science Data or information. ECHO advertises these services as well as brokers these services, as the Service Partner requests.
The information contained within the Extended Service Partners section of this website is organized to support the efforts of new and current ECHO Extended Service Partners. For a complete list of current ECHO Extended Service Partners, click here.
Service partners are responsible for:
The following links and documentation provide quick access to the most commonly used reference materials by ECHO Service Partners.