PDS Standards Reference - Revised

The following is version 3.6 of the PDS Standards Reference, dated August 1, 2003. The * represents some changes in this part of document.

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

*Chapter10 - 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 - PDS Data Group Definitions

*Index

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