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May 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21640224m&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #216, #402.24; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.877
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Space missions generate an ever-growing amount of data, as impressively highlighted by the Solar Dynamics Observatory's (SDO) expected return of 1.4 TByte/day. In order to fully exploit their data, scientists need to be able to browse and visualize many different data products spanning a large range of physical length and time scales. So far, the tools available to the scientific community either require downloading all potentially relevant data sets beforehand in their entirety or provide only movies with a fixed resolution and cadence. For SDO, the former approach is prohibitive due to the shear data volume, while the latter does not do justice to the high resolution and cadence of the images. To address this challenge, we have developed JHelioviewer, a JPEG 2000-based visualization and discovery software for solar image data. Using the very efficient lossy compression mode of JPEG 2000, a full-size SDO image can be compressed to 1 MByte at good visual quality for browsing purposes. JHelioviewer will make the vast amount of SDO images available to the worldwide community in this format, which is already being used for all SOHO images. JHelioviewer is a cross-platform application that offers movie streaming, real-time frame-by-frame image processing, feature/event overlays and will enable users to access SDO science data via a VSO interface. JHelioviewer uses the JPEG 2000 Interactive Protocol (JPIP) and OpenGL. The random code stream access of JPIP minimizes data transfer by streaming image data in a region-of-interest and quality-progressive way, while OpenGL enables rapid hardware-accelerated image processing and rendering. Currently focused on solar physics data, JHelioviewer can easily be adapted for use in other areas of space and earth sciences. This poster will illustrate the new and expanded functionality of JHelioviewer and highlight the advantages of JPEG 2000 as a new compression standard for solar image data.
Dimitoglou George
Fleck Bernard
Garcia Ortiz Juan Pablo
Hughitt Keith V.
Ireland Jack
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