Nowadays, NASA is producing several terabytes Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer （MODIS） data everyday; how to find the data with criteria, such as specific times, locations, and scales using an international standard becomes more and more important. In this paper, a service-oriented architecture for use of the integration Earth Observation System Clearing- HOuse （ECHO） with the Open Geospatial Consortium （OGC） Catalogue Service--Web profile （CSW） is put forward. The architecture consists of three roles： a service requester （the user）, a service provider （the ECHO metadata server）, and a service broker （the GeoNetwork CSW and MODIS registry service middleware）. The core component-MODIS registry service middleware includes three components： metadata fetcher, metadata transformer, and metadata register. The metadata fetcher is used to fetch metadata from ECHO metadata server; the metadata transformer is responsible for transform metadata from one form to another; the metadata register is in charge of registering ISO19139-based metadata to CSW. A prototype system is designed and implemented by using the service middleware technology and a standard interface and protocol. The feasibility and the response time of registry and retrieval of MODIS data are evaluated by means of a realistic LPDAAC_ECS MODIS data center. The implementation of this prototype system and the experiment show that the architecture and method is feasible and effective.
