Data Assimilation techniques for Space Weather: optimal use of data in the sparse and limited coverage of the Solar System

Dimitrios Millas1, Brecht Laperre1, Maria Elena Innocenti1,2, Giovanni Lapenta1 and Joachim Raeder3, (1)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Durham, NH, United States