Interoperability with the Earth Science Remote Access Tool (ESRAT)

The Earth Science Remote Access Tool (ESRAT), an enhancement to the Distributed Oceanographic Data System (DODS), is an HTTP-based client—server system that facilitates Internet access to distributed Earth science data. ESRAT addresses the great diversity of data formats used in the Earth sciences by providing a common data model with translators for the models inherent in many standard raster formats. It enables applications normally using local data in a particular format to access remote datasets in that or other supported formats.