HR: 0830h
AN: SH51B-01    [Abstracts]
TI: The SAMPEX Data Center and User Interface for the SEC Community
AU: * Davis, A J
EM: ad@srl.caltech.edu
AF: California Institute of Technology, Downs Lab MS 220-47, Pasadena, CA 91125 United States
AU: Mason, G M
AF: University of Maryland, Department of Physics, College Park, MD 20742 United States
AU: Walpole, P
AF: University of Maryland, Department of Physics, College Park, MD 20742 United States
AU: von Rosenvinge, T T
AF: NASA/GSFC, Code 661, Green Belt, MD 20771
AU: Looper, M D
AF: The Aerospace Corp, 2350 E. El Segundo. Blvd., El Segundo, CA 90245 United States
AU: Blake, J B
AF: The Aerospace Corp, 2350 E. El Segundo. Blvd., El Segundo, CA 90245 United States
AU: Mazur, J E
AF: The Aerospace Corp, 2350 E. El Segundo. Blvd., El Segundo, CA 90245 United States
AU: Stone, E C
AF: California Institute of Technology, Downs Lab MS 220-47, Pasadena, CA 91125 United States
AU: Leske, R A
AF: California Institute of Technology, Downs Lab MS 220-47, Pasadena, CA 91125 United States
AU: Labrador, A W
AF: California Institute of Technology, Downs Lab MS 220-47, Pasadena, CA 91125 United States
AU: Mewaldt, R A
AF: California Institute of Technology, Downs Lab MS 220-47, Pasadena, CA 91125 United States
AU: Kanekal, S G
AF: University of Colorado, Lab. Atm. and Space Physics, Boulder, CO 80302 United States
AU: Baker, D N
AF: University of Colorado, Lab. Atm. and Space Physics, Boulder, CO 80302 United States
AU: Li, X
AF: University of Colorado, Lab. Atm. and Space Physics, Boulder, CO 80302 United States
AU: Klecker, B
AF: MPI fur extraterrestrische Physik, D-85741 Garching Postfach 1312, Germany
AB: The Solar, Anomalous, Magnetospheric Particle Explorer (SAMPEX) was the first of NASA's Small Explorer (SMEX) series. SAMPEX was launched July 3, 1992 into a 520 by 670 km orbit at 82 degrees inclination. SAMPEX carries four instruments designed to study energetic particles of solar, interplanetary, and magnetospheric origin, as well as "anomalous" and galactic cosmic rays. As an outcome of the Senior Review process, the NASA SAMPEX science mission ended on June 30, 2004, leaving a 12-year continuous record of observations. (The spacecraft and instruments are still operating and returning science data for a 1-year trial period under a partnership between NASA and the Aerospace Corporation). SAMPEX was launched before the development of the WWW and implementation of NASA's open data policy. This, and the complexity of the data analysis have made it difficult for the general community to make full use of the SAMPEX science data set. The SAMPEX Data Center will remedy the situation. The data center set-up and operation is funded for 3 years by NASA. The goals of the data center are to enable community access to the full SAMPEX data set by developing an up-to-date, flexible web-based system, and to provide for the eventual permanent archiving of this version of the SAMPEX data set at the NSSDC. Knowledgeable members of the SAMPEX science team are preparing the data, and members of the ACE Science Center at Caltech are involved in developing the data distribution pipeline and user interface. The system is modeled in part on the ACE Science Center, but enhanced to accommodate the more-complex SAMPEX data set. We will describe the current status of the SAMPEX Data Center development, the user interface, and the contents of the data that will be made available.
UR: http://www.srl.caltech.edu/ACE/ASC/sampex
DE: 2794 Instruments and techniques
DE: 7594 Instruments and techniques
DE: 7894 Instruments and techniques
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly