The ASI Science Data Center (ASDC) is a facility
of the Italian Space Agency established in November 2000.
ASDC responsibilities
- Support
ASI scientific missions for all matters concerning the management
and the archival of scientific space data
- Generate and maintain a permanent data archive
of all ASI scientific missions
- Act as the interface between the ASI scientific
missions and the users' community
- Support the Italian (and the general) community
in the field of data analysis and archival research
- Maintain a permanent scientific and technical
expertise for the processing and interpretation of the data hosted
- Provide on-line access to the data hosted
- Host a copy of non-ASI public data archives that are
of interest in the Italian scientific community
- Develop and maintain (also in collaboration with other
institutions) software systems for the access,
analysis and comparison
of archival data
- Establish links with other data centers for the exchange
of public data, software and expertise
The ASDC
is located at the European Space Agency's establishment of ESRIN, Frascati,
Italy
