HR: 1330h
AN: U23A-08    [Abstracts]
TI: The Sun-Solar System Connection Great Observatory: Virtual, but Nearing Reality
AU: * Roberts, D A
EM: aaron.roberts@nasa.gov
AF: NASA GSFC, Laboratory for Solar and Space Physics Code 612.2, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: King, J
EM: jking@mail630.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: QSS Group Inc., 4500 Forbes Blvd., Lanham, MD 20706 United States
AU: Rezapkin, V
EM: vasili.rezapkin@aquilent.com
AF: Aquilent, 1100 West St., Laurel, MD 20707 United States
AB: The collection of spacecraft and ground-based observatories that measure photons, fields, and particles from the Sun and solar system can function as a Great Observatory if the resulting data products are united through services that make them seamlessly available to researchers. Virtual Observatories, begun as ways of viewing the sky in all wavelengths from a desktop computer, should allow us to reach this goal. Major strides have been made in designing architectures and operational systems that allow scientists to rapidly gather, visualize, and process widely-distributed data from highly varied instruments. This talk will present the current state-of-the art and a vision for the future of "VS3O." The eGY is very well timed to be a focal point for these efforts on an international scale.
UR: http://lwsde.gsfc.nasa.gov
DE: 2199 General or miscellaneous
DE: 2499 General or miscellaneous
DE: 2799 General or miscellaneous
DE: 7599 General or miscellaneous
DE: 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields
SC: Union [U]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly