Physics – Space Physics
Scientific paper
May 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agusmsm31a..03m&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2008, abstract #SM31A-03
Physics
Space Physics
2199 General Or Miscellaneous, 2499 General Or Miscellaneous, 2799 General Or Miscellaneous, 7899 General Or Miscellaneous
Scientific paper
From a science user's perspective, the multi-mission data and orbit services of NASA's Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF) project offers a unique range of important data and services directly supporting the Heliophysics Great Observatory and highly complementary to other services presently available or now evolving in the international heliophysics data environment. The VSPO (Virtual Space Physics Observatory) service is an active portal to a wide range of distributed data sources. CDAWeb (Coordinated Data Analysis Web) enables plots, listings and file downloads for current data across the boundaries of missions and instrument types (and now including data from THEMIS and STEREO). SSCWeb, Helioweb and our 3D Animated Orbit Viewer (TIPSOD) provide position data and query logic for most missions currently important to heliophysics science. OMNIWeb with its new extension to 1- and 5-minute resolution provides interplanetary parameters at the Earth's bow shock as a unique value-added data product. SPDF also maintains NASA's CDF (Common Data Format) standard and a range of associated tools including format translation services. These capabilities are all now available through webservices-based APIs, one element in SPDF's ongoing work to enable heliophysics community development of Virtual discipline Observatories and the ready attachment of SPDF services into those interfaces. In this paper, we will demonstrate the latest data and capabilities now supported in these multi-mission services, review the lessons we continue to learn in what science users need and value in this class of services, and discuss our current thinking to the future role and appropriate focus of the SPDF effort in the evolving and increasingly distributed heliophysics data environment.
Bilitza Dieter
Candey R.
Chimiak R.
Cooper Joshua
Fung Shing
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