HR: 1400h
AN: SM23A-06    [Abstracts]
TI: Magnetospheric Data Discovery and Access
AU: * Merka, J
EM: jan.merka@gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, United States
AU: * Merka, J
EM: jan.merka@gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA/GSFC, Code 672, Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States
AU: King, T A
EM: tking@igpp.ucla.edu
AF: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90064-1567, United States
AU: Narock, T W
EM: tom.narock@gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, United States
AU: Narock, T W
EM: tom.narock@gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA/GSFC, Code 672, Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States
AU: Walker, R J
EM: rwalker@igpp.ucla.edu
AF: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90064-1567, United States
AU: Joy, S P
EM: sjoy@igpp.ucla.edu
AF: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90064-1567, United States
AB: Magnetospheric data are provided by a variety of diverse sources and the data is generally not provided in the same format, nor with the same level of documentation. The Virtual Magnetospheric Observatory (VMO), a joint effort of scientists at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and UCLA, aims to provide the scientific community with an integrated access to well documented data and related services. In this presentation we will demonstrate current and upcoming features of the VMO, important to both end-users and data providers. The primary function of the VMO is to search for available data sets matching user-specified criteria and to return links to matching data. The query submission process and its results will be demonstrated. In order to compare and search different data sets, they are described using the standard SPASE data model. We have developed tools for creating resource descriptions and for managing them in registries. Such tools simplify metadata preparation for the data providers to participate in the VMO. We will also discuss VMO value-added services (e.g., formatting, subsetting, display data, data mining).
UR: http:vmo.nasa.gov
DE: 2794 Instruments and techniques
DE: 2799 General or miscellaneous
SC: SPA-Magnetospheric Physics [SM]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly