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What has been lacking in the past is an open source type effort to make derived datasets available. There are numerous commercial projects that process public domain data and resell it, but do not publish methods or make the data available for free. The community tend to use NASA datasets with known limitations, or commercial data with high entry pricing. There is a distinct lack of cost-free domain specific derived data.

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