HR: 1330h
AN: U22A-0017    [PDF]
TI: SECAA Web Services for Space Physics Research
AU: * Candey, R M
EM: robert.m.candey@nasa.gov
AF: Code 632, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771
AU: Chimiak, R A
EM: reine.a.chimiak@nasa.gov
AF: Code 580, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771
AU: Han, D B
EM: david.b.han@nasa.gov
AF: Code 580, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771
AU: Harris, B T
EM: bernard.t.harris@nasa.gov
AF: Code 580, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771
AU: Kovalick, T J
EM: kovalick@mail630.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: QSS, Code 630, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771
AU: Liu, M H
EM: liu@mail630.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: Raytheon ITSS, Code 630, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771
AU: McGuire, R E
EM: robert.e.mcguire@nasa.gov
AF: Code 632, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771
AB: The distributed components of a space physics virtual observatory work together via standard interfaces and metadata agreements to form a system that appears as a single super-instrument providing geophysical measurements and models across time and space, enabling researchers to easily and seamlessly analyze data from many more sources than possible before. The lower level components of this observatory are a set of interoperable services that can be strung together in many combinations, forming an integrated system that is much greater than the sum of its parts. We are providing a critical set of these lower level components, leveraging our data format translators and upcoming Data Format Translation webservice, and leveraging our existing and very popular science and orbit data web-based services, Coordinated Data Analysis Web [CDAWeb] and Satellite Situation Center Web [SSCweb], by adding web services for orbit location, data finding across FTP sites and in CDAWeb, data file format translation, and display. Unlike with previous custom or proprietary protocols, these easily extendable services are open to other systems and external applications by using standard distributed Application Program Interfaces (APIs) based on XML and Simple Object Access Protocol [SOAP] standards and a simple HTTP calling interface. These services tie together existing data holdings, standardize and simplify their use, and enable much enhanced interoperability and data analysis. We have developed an orbit display client, TIPSOD (Tool for Interactive Plotting, Sonification and 3-D Orbit Display), based on Java3D as an example of using these web services. CDAWeb, SSCWeb, CDF tools, and web services are a joint effort of the Sun-Earth Connections (SEC) Active Archive (SECAA) in the NASA GSFC Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF) and the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC).
UR: http://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov
DE: 2199 General or miscellaneous
DE: 2700 MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS
SC: U
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting