HR: 17:30h
AN: SA54A-07    [Abstracts]
TI: The Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory
AU: * Fox, P A
EM: pfox@ucar.edu
AF: HAO/NCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307 United States
AU: Middleton, D
EM: don@ucar.edu
AF: SCD/NCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307 United States
AU: Solomon, S C
EM: stans@ucar.edu
AF: HAO/NCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307 United States
AU: Garcia, J
EM: jgarcia@ucar.edu
AF: HAO/NCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307 United States
AU: Cinquini, L
EM: luca@ucar.edu
AF: SCD/NCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307 United States
AU: West, P
EM: pwest@ucar.edu
AF: HAO/NCAR, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307 United States
AB: The VSTO is being developed as a scalable environment for searching, integrating, and analyzing databases distributed over the Internet. The VSTO comprises a system of data, model, tool and material archives containing items from space- and ground-based instruments, individual and community modeling efforts, taken from NCAR, US universities and international sources, and from NSF- and NASA-funded groups. A key element of the VSTO is the allowance for an integrated data-mining and analysis capability that can be applied both across and within databases, i.e. across disciplines. The capabilities of a VSTO are intended to be available to a wider community of scientists, educators, and the public and thus is intended to be a natural conduit for education and public outreach in solar solar-terrestrial and space physics. This presentation will outline the key user requirements, functionality, proposed architecture and technologies that will be used in assembling the VSTO. We will also present past experience in building elements of data and collaborations system and the lessons learned.
DE: 9810 New fields (not classifiable under other headings)
DE: 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields
DE: 6314 Demand estimation
DE: 6339 System design
DE: 6620 Science policy
SC: SPA-Aeronomy [SA]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting