HR: 1330h
AN: U22A-0014    [PDF]
TI: Building a Virtual Space Physics Observatory for Easy Access to and Novel Visualization of Distributed Data
AU: Rezapkin, V
EM: vasili.rezapkin@aquilent.com
AF: Aquilent, 1100 West Street, Laurel, MD 20727 United States
AU: * Roberts, D A
EM: aaron.roberts@nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 692, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Coleman, J
EM: jason.coleman@aquilent.com
AF: Aquilent, 1100 West Street, Laurel, MD 20727 United States
AU: Boller, R
EM: ryan.a.boller.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 587, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AB: Progress in space physics has become strongly dependent on the simultaneous analysis of data from multiple spacecraft, each with many instruments. Historically, these data have been stored by different investigators in a variety of formats and with widely varying metadata describing the datasets. We are working on many fronts to integrate this ``data universe" such that a researcher will ultimately be able to obtain data using a uniform terminology through a variety of interfaces, obtaining either specifically formatted files or a direct stream into an application. Our main accomplishments to date include a general data dictionary (working with the SPASE group), a well-developed front-end visualization tool, and the beginnings of a simpler interface and ``middleware" to access the data directly from various repositories. We are working with as many other groups as we can to assure that the resulting system is made useful through the incorporation and coordination of many applications and ideas. This talk will give an overview of our status and plans.
DE: 2139 Interplanetary shocks
DE: 2164 Solar wind plasma
DE: 2740 Magnetospheric configuration and dynamics
DE: 9815 Notices and announcements
DE: 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields
SC: U
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting