Metadata

1 Definition

Data describing other data, providing an understanding of the content and utility of a product or collection.

Metadata may be used to select data for a particular scientific investigation.
Metadata is intended as information describing significant aspects of a resource (Earth Observation space data in this context). They are created for the purposes of data search, discovery and access management and may exist at various levels, typically from data collection through to the individual variables of each product in a collection.

Data describing characteristics, content, and utility of a dataset to enable search, discovery, and access management, particularly for Earth Observation resources.

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