The document provides an overview and status update of the Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). ESDIS has successfully supported numerous Earth science satellite missions and currently manages over 2 petabytes of science data. In fiscal year 2002, ESDIS delivered over 16 million data products to more than 1.8 million users. ESDIS is working to enhance its capabilities through initiatives like Data Pools and the EOS ClearingHOuse (ECHO) metadata broker. HDF-EOS 5 development is nearly complete and the workshop will discuss next steps for HDF-EOS tools and community adoption of HDF-EOS 5.