PDS Standards Reference - Revised

The following is version 3.4 of the PDS Standards Reference, dated June 15, 2001. (Click here for the previous version, dated July, 1999.)

Main Body

Title Page

Table of Contents

Change Log

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Chapter 2 - Cartographic Standards

Chapter 3 - Data Type Values and Data File Storage Formats

Chapter 4 - Data Objects and Products

Chapter 5 - Data Product Labels

Chapter 6 - Data Set/Data Set Collection Contents and Naming

Chapter 7 - Date/Time Format

Chapter 8 - Directory Types and Naming

Chapter 9 - Documents

Chapter 10 - File Specification and Naming

Chapter 11 - Media Formats for Data Submission and Archive

Chapter 12 - Object Description Language (ODL) Specification and Usage

Chapter 13 - PDS Objects

Chapter 14 - Pointer Usage

Chapter 15 - Record Formats

Chapter 16 - SFDU Usage

Chapter 17 - Usage of N/A, UNK, and NULL

Chapter 18 - Units of Measurement

Chapter 19 - Volume Organization and Naming

Chapter 20 - Zip Compression

Appendices

Appendix A - Data Object Definitions

Appendix B - Complete PDS Catalog Object Template Set

Appendix C - Internal Representation of Data Types

Appendix D - Examples of Required Files

Appendix E - NAIF Toolkit Directory Structure

Appendix F - Acronyms and Abbreviations

Appendix G - SAVED Data

Appendix H - Reference Citation Specification and Naming

Index

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