SH018
Meeting the Evolving Data Access and Scientific Analysis Capabilities of the Heliophysics Community
Meeting the Evolving Data Access and Scientific Analysis Capabilities of the Heliophysics Community
Session ID#: 161911
Session Description:
Data from heliophysics satellites now rivals that of ground-based observatories in volume and complexity. NASA and other US-government-funded projects are required to provide their science data to a permanent data archive that ensures access to the data in perpetuity. Many agencies, including ESA, are requiring licenses that ensure a wide use of the data archived by their space missions. This means the ever-expanding archives will be used by an ever-growing community. While permanent archives are being designed and built, we have a unique opportunity to look at previous experiences to provide ideas on their design and operation. Besides assuring access to the data and search tools to isolate relevant data, an archive could offer computational services (primarily to reduce the amount of data that must be served) and subsetting services (again reducing the amount of transferred data). Other services could include metadata searches and providing computational services for individual research efforts. Papers describing heliophysics data archives, their implementation, and future plans are solicited for this session. Descriptions of how current archives have solved these issues are also welcome.
Co-Organized:
- SA - SPA-Aeronomy
- SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
Index Terms:
1912 Data management, preservation, rescue [INFORMATICS]
1950 Metadata: Quality [INFORMATICS]
7536 Solar activity cycle [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
Primary Convener: William Dean Pesnell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners: Neal E Hurlburt, Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA, United States, D Aaron Roberts, NASA Goddard SFC, Code 672, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Brian A. Thomas, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics Science Division, Greenbelt, United States
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