PDS Standards Reference - Revised

The following is the revised version of the PDS Standards Reference. The changes included are those that were approved at PDS Management Council in Flagstaff Arizona, July, 1999:

Main Body

Title Page and Table of Contents

Change Log

Section 1 - Introduction

Section 2 - Cartographic Standards

Section 3 - Data Type Definitions

Section 4 - Data Products

Section 5 - Data Product Labels

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

Section 7 - Date/Time Formats

Section 8 - Directory Types and Naming

Section 9 - Document

Section 10 - File Specification and Naming

Section 11 - Media Formats for Data Submission and Archive

Section 12 - Object Description Language (ODL) Specification

Section 13 - PDS Objects

Section 14 - Pointer Usage

Section 15 - Record Formats

Section 16 - SFDU usage

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

Section 18 - Units of Measurement

Section 19 - Volume Organization and Naming

Section 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

Index

The following are PDF and text versions of the entire PDS Standards document. Note that the text version lacks the graphics and formatting that can be found in the PDF version: