Metadata
1 Definition
Data about data, which provides an understanding of the content and utility of the product or collection.
Notes
- Metadata may be used to select on 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.