Venue
- Location: Caltech (Pasadena, CA).
- Date: Oct. 16th 2016
- Schedule: 9:30am to 5:00pm (preliminary)
Announcement
Abstract
The large amount of data generated by modern space missions calls for a change of organization of data distribution and access procedures. Although long term archives exist for telescopic and space-borne observations, high-level functions need to be developed on top of theses repositories to make Planetary Science and Heliophysics data more accessible and to favor interoperability. Results of simulations and reference laboratory data also need to be integrated to support and interpret the observations. Interoperable software and interfaces has recently been developed in many scientific domains. The Virtual Observatory (VO) interoperable standards developed for Astronomy by the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) can be adapted to Planetary Sciences, as demonstrated by the VESPA (Virtual European Solar and Planetary Access) team within the Europlanet-H2020-RI project. Other communities have developed their own standards: GIS (Geographic Information System) for Earth and planetary surfaces tools, SPASE (Space Physics Archive Search and Extract) for space plasma, PDS4 (NASA Planetary Data System, version 4) and IPDA (International Planetary Data Alliance) for planetary mission archives, etc, and an effort to make them interoperable altogether is starting, including automated workflows to process related data from different sources. The goal of this workshop is to discuss, strengthen and develop the interoperability in Planetary Sciences and Heliophysics interoperability frameworks.
Conveners
- Baptiste Cecconi , LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, France.
- Daniel J. Crichton, JPL-NASA, Pasadena, California, USA.
- Angelo Pio Rossi , Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany.
- Stéphane Erard, LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, France.
Details
- Location: Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA
- Date: October 16th, 2016
Attendees (planned)
Registration form is now available
Name | Institute | Country | Project | Confirmed |
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Stéphane Erard | LESIA (Obs. Paris) | France | VESPA | yes |
LESIA (Obs. Paris) | France | VESPA | yes | |
INAF | Italy | VESPA | ||
Todd King | IGPP/UCLA | USA | PDS-PPI | |
Joey Mukherjee | USA | |||
Bob Weigel | USA | |||
Jon Vandegriff | USA | |||
Ludmilla Kolokolova | USA | PDS-SBN | pm only | |
Chuck Acton | JPL/NASA | USA | NAIF | yes |
Tom Stein | USA | |||
Ed Guinness | USA | |||
Chris Piker | U. of Iowa | USA | Autoplot | |
Emily Law | USA | |||
Dan Crichton | USA | PDS | ||
IRAP-CNRS | France | VESPA | yes | |
DIO-Obs Paris | France | VESPA | yes | |
LATMOS | France | VESPA | ||
Spain | VESPA | |||
Anna Milan | USA | |||
Nicholas Achilleos | UCL | UK | VESPA | yes |
Sébastien Besse | ESA/PSA | Spain | yes | |
Santa Martinez | ESA/PSA | Spain | yes |
Program (preliminary)
Author | Title | Abstract |
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Stéphane Erard | One year on VESPA, a community-driven Virtual Observatory in Planetary Science | In the frame of the Europlanet-RI program (2009-2012), a prototype Virtual Observatory dedicated to Planetary Science has been set up. Most of the activity was dedicated to the definition of standards to handle data in this field. The aim was to facilitate searches in big archives as well as sparse databases, to make on-line data access and visualization possible, and to allow small data providers to make their data available in an interoperable environment with minimum effort. This system makes intensive use of studies and developments led in Astronomy (IVOA), Solar Science (HELIO), and space archive services (IPDA). A general standard has been devised to handle the specific complexity of Planetary Science, e. g., in terms of measurement types and coordinate frames [1]. This standard is now a project study of IPDA. A procedure has been identified to install small data services, and hands-on sessions are organized twice a year at EGU and EPSC. A specific user interface (VESPA) has been developed at the Observatory of Paris (http://vespa.obspm.fr) using a resolver for target names. Selected data can be sent to VO visualization tools such as TOPCAT or Aladin through the SAMP protocol. This effort is continuing in the Europlanet2020-RI programme started in Sept 2015 for 4 years. The programme provides support to new data services from the community (30 to 50 expected), and focuses on the improvement of the infrastructure. Future steps will include the development of a connection between the VO world and GIS tools, and integration of heliophysics, planetary plasma and mineral spectroscopy data. The Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastructure project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 654208. |
Gangloff Michel | Interoperability standards at CDPP | The CDPP (French plasma physics data center (http://cdpp.eu) is engaged for nearly two decades in the archiving and dissemination of plasma data products from space missions and ground-based observatories, and involved in many interoperability projects or international organizations like SPASE, IVOA and IPDA. The work done in the frame of projects supported by the european commission (Europlanet/VESPA, IMPEx) , as well as the integration of SPASE in one of the analysis tools (AMDA) developed by the CDPP will be presented. |
Gangloff Michel | A generic library for the management of the EPN-TAP protocol | A generic library for the management of the EPN-TAP protocol, defined in the frame of the European H2020 Europlanet VESPA project has been designed and implemented in JAVA at IRAP, Toulouse, France. The EPN-TAP protocol is aimed at facilitating the exchange of planetary scineces data. This Java implementation is already used by several software tools like CASSIS ( analysis of spectra) or 3DView ( display of planetary science data along spacecraft trajectories). The same library is currently implemented in Javascript/PHP for AMDA ( plasma physics data analysis). |
Chuck Acton | SPICE Development Plans | Acton will summarize current NAIF thinking about further development of the SPICE system, and in so doing will entertain suggestions from the workshop participants. |