ICARTT AND BEYOND EXTENDING THE TOOLSETS FOR AIRBORNE DATA THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE DATA CENTER ASDC AT NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PROCESSING, ARCHIVAL, AND DISTRIBUTION OF NASA EARTH SCIENCE DATA. ONE OF NASAS GOALS IS TO MAKE AIRCRAFT DATA READILY AVAILABLE FOR SCIENTIFIC STUDIES ON CLIMATE AND AIR QUALITY ISSUES. IN ORDER TO INGEST THE MEASUREMENT DATA FILES SUBMITTED BY INVESTIGATORS INTO ASDC DATA ARCHIVE, PROPERTIES WITHIN EACH FILE NEED TO BE EXTRACTED, AND THE FORMAT OF EACH FILE MUST BE CONVERTED INTO A COMMON FORMAT. THESE HAVE BEEN DONE FOR ICARTT DATA FORMAT THROUGH PREVIOUS PROJECTS. THE GOAL OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO EXTEND THE PROCESS TO INCLUDE OTHER DATA FORMATS, WHICH OPENS THE DOOR TO INCLUDE LARGE COLLECTIONS OF OTHER DATA FORMATS INTO NASAS DATA ARCHIVE. THE PROPOSED WORK IS COMPRISED OF THREE COMPONENTS. THE FIRST PART INVOLVES THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOFTWARE ALGORITHMS TO AUTOMATE DATA CLEANING-UP AND CONVERSION PROCESS FOR AMES DATA FORMATS. THE ALGORITHM WILL BE APPLIED TO MISSIONS USING AMES FORMAT AS PART OF DATA INGESTION PROCESS. THE SECOND PART INVOLVES A SIMILAR PROCESS AND TASK AS THE FIRST PART, BUT FOR GTE DATA FORMAT AND MISSIONS USING GTE FORMAT. THE THIRD COMPONENT OF THE PROPOSED WORK INVOLVES THE EXTRACTION OF FEATURES FROM ICARTT FILE IN ORDER TO BUILD EXTENDED VARIABLE MAPS.