Steps towards a virtual solar observatory

Author

Csillaghy, A. ; Zarro, D.M. ; Freeland, S.L.

Author_Institution

Space Sci. Lab., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA

Volume

18

Issue

2

fYear

2001

fDate

3/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

41

Lastpage

48

Abstract

We present three categories of sites from which solar data can be retrieved. We describe the retrieval software systems associated with these sites and then present software systems used for analyzing solar data. We show that both retrieval and analysis systems provide only limited global organization and/or standard access of data. We thus also discuss extensions to these systems, including data combination (or mapping) software, reusable software components, and visualization software. We argue that such extensions could eventually provide die level of software support expected by users

Keywords

Sun; astronomical observatories; astronomy computing; data analysis; data visualisation; software reusability; data combination software; data mapping software; global organization; retrieval software systems; reusable software; software support; solar data analysis; solar data retrieval; standard data access; virtual solar observatory; visualization software; Data analysis; Information retrieval; Instruments; Observatories; Optical arrays; Software reusability; Software systems; Spectroscopy; Sun; X-ray imaging;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1053-5888

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/79.916320

Filename

916320