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The User Community and a Multi-Mission Data Project: Services, Experiences and Directions of the Space Physics Data FacilityFrom a user's perspective, the multi-mission data and orbit services of NASA's Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF) project offer a unique range of important data and services highly complementary to other services presently available or now evolving in the international heliophysics data environment. The VSP (Virtual Space Physics Observatory) service is an active portal to a wide range of distributed data sources. CDAWeb (Coordinate Data Analysis Web) enables plots, listings and file downloads for current data cross 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 translation services. These capabilities are all now available through webservices-based APIs as well as through our direct user 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 out current thinking to the future role and appropriate focus of the SPDF effort in the evolving and increasingly distributed heliophysics data environment.
Document ID
20080037606
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Fung, Shing F.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Bilitza, D.
Candey, R.
Chimiak, R.
Cooper, John
Fung, Shing
Harris, B.
Johnson R.
King, J.
Kovalick, T.
Leckner, H.
Papitashvili, N.
Roberts, Aaron
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
May 26, 2008
Subject Category
Solar Physics
Meeting Information
Meeting: Joint meeting of the American Astronautical Society/Science Programs Division, American Geophysical Union
Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL
Country: United States
Start Date: May 26, 2008
End Date: May 30, 2008
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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