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Global Earth Observation System of Systems Data Sharing Principles." The paper is a collaborative, interdisciplinary product of a number of authors who participated in the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Task DA-06-01 on furthering the practical application of the agreed GEOSS data sharing principles. To assure wide distribution and use of the paper, the paper has been published using a Creative Commons license that allows reuse and redissemination of all or part of the paper, as long as proper attribution is given.
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