Work
ESSCOR
NASA · 2017–2025
ESSCOR
A discovery portal unifying archival and near real-time remote sensing holdings into a searchable, standards-compliant catalog.
Outcome
Streamlined data discovery and ordering for government agencies and partner institutions.
Stack
Role
Lead developer — built the discovery and search platform, the metadata model, and granule-level access controls.
Granule
Level access control
Problem
- Researchers struggled to discover and order data across fragmented archival and near real-time holdings.
- Metadata inconsistency slowed search, access control, and downstream ordering workflows.
Decisions
- Implemented granule-level access controls and standardized metadata schemas.
- Built search and discovery on ElasticSearch with governed ordering and delivery paths.
Outcome
- Streamlined data discovery and ordering for government agencies and partner institutions.
- Reduced friction between catalog search and governed data access.