CDF Technical Reports
		  National Space Science Data Center
		   NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
			<nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov>

This document is located at
	ftp://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/cdf/doc/papers/AAREADME.txt

Guidelines for searching:
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1. Some technical papers discussing CDF are  maintained  on-line  in the
   anonymous FTP directory: pub/cdf/doc/papers

2. Technical reports are stored in  a compressed PostScript format in a
   path/file named: <TR-NAME>.ps.Z, where <TR-NAME> is an abbreviated name
   for the technical report or paper.

3. For a summary of all the  on-line  technical  reports and papers,
   refer to: pub/cdf/doc/papers/ABSTRACTS

4. For  a  complete list of publications about or referring to CDF,
   refer to: pub/cdf/doc/papers/Bibliography.txt


Index of available papers:
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compression.ps.Z
	Mathews, G. J., "Selecting a General-Purpose Data Compression
	Algorithm", Proceedings of the Science Information Management
	and Data Compression Workshop, NASA/GSFC, October 1995,
	pp. 55-64. (10 pages)

CDF-nssdc.ps.Z
	Goucher, G. W., and G. J. Mathews, "A Comprehensive Look at CDF",
	NSSDC/WDC-A-R&S 94-07, NASA/GSFC, August 1994. (20 pages)

MR-CDF.ps.Z
	Salem, K., "MR-CDF: Managing Multi-Resolution Scientific Data",
	CESDIS TR 92-81, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, Maryland, March 1992.
	(18 pages)

omniweb-paper.ps.Z
	Mathews, G. J., and S. S. Towheed, "NSSDC OMNIWeb: The First Space
	Physics WWW-based Data Browsing and Retrieval System," Computer
	Networks and ISDN Systems, Proceedings of Third International World
	Wide Web Conference, Vol. 27, No. 6, April 1995, pp. 801-808.
	Also: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/omniweb/misc/papers/www95.html

stein-thesis.ps.Z
	Steinberg, H., "Multi-Resolution Access to Gridded Data", Thesis paper,
	Univ. of Maryland, May 1993. (160 pages including client/server C src)


Current Technical Reports Maintainer:
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Jason Mathews <mathews@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov>
  NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
  National Space Science Data Center
  Code 633.2
  Greenbelt, Maryland 20771-0001, U.S.A.

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