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Title
Enabling Open and Interoperable Access to Planetary Science and Heliophysics Databases and Tools
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Call Abstract
We are pleased to announce a Planetary and Space Sciences special issue entitled « Enabling Open and Interoperable Access to Planetary Science and Heliophysics Databases and Tools ». This special issue is linked to three scientific sessions held last year at the Japanese Geoscience Union Meeting (Session P-PS02, JpGU, May 2015, Tokyo, Japan), the European Planetary Science Conference (Session MT9, EPSC, Sept. 2015, Nantes, France) and the American Geophysical Union (Sessions IN33E and IN41E, AGU, Dec. 2015, San Francisco, California, USA).
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 special issue is to provide an overview of progresses in Planetary Sciences and Heliophysics interoperability frameworks, ongoing data management and distribution projects, and use cases of VO, GIS and SPASE applications with a focus on science activities and success stories.
Special Issue main dates:
- April 11th 2016: opening of the submission process
- September 5th 2016: closing of the submission process
- May 31st 2017: end of review process and acceptance deadlineSincerely,
Baptiste Cecconi (Guest Editor)
Aaron Roberts (co-Guest Editor)
Yukio Yamamoto (co-Guest Editor)
Related conference sessions
Date | Place | Conference Name |
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May 2015 | Tokyo, Japan | Japanese Geoscience Union 2015 (JpGU-2015) |
September 2015 | Nantes, France | European Planetary Science Conference 2015 (EPSC-2015) |
December 2015 | San Francisco, California, USA | American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2015 (AGUFM-2015) |
Preliminary list of papers
Authors | Title | Abstract | Paper number | Link to draft (arXiv) | Status |
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Baptiste Cecconi, Aaron Roberts, Yukio Yamamoto | Introduction to Special Issue | ? | |||
Stéphane Erard et al | VESPA: a community-driven Virtual Observatory in Planetary Science | The VESPA data access system is intended to apply Virtual Observatory standards and tools to Planetary Science. Building on a previous EU-funded Europlanet program, it has reached maturity during the first year of a new Europlanet 2020 program (started in 2015 for 4 years). The infrastructure has been upgraded to handle many fields of Solar System studies, with a focus both on users and data providers. This paper describes the broad lines of the current VESPA infrastructure as seen by a potential user, and provides examples of real use cases in several thematic areas, together with hints for future developments. | PSS_2016_358 | Submitted version | REVIEW |
Vincent Génot, et al | Science data visualization in planetary and heliospheric contexts with 3DView | A 3D orbitography software capable of displaying science data is presented. 3DView, a web tool designed by the French Plasma Physics Data Centre (http://cdpp.eu) for the planetology and heliophysics community, has indeed extended functionalities to render space physics data (observations and models alike) in their original 3D context. Time series, vectors, or spectra, full-bodied or partial maps, magnetic field or flow lines, 2D cuts in simulation cubes, etc, are among the variety of data representation enabled by 3DView. The direct connection to several large databases, the use of VO standards and the possibility to upload user data makes 3DView a versatile tool able to cover a wide range of space physics contexts. The code is open source and the software is regularly used at master level or summer school for pedagogical purposes. The present paper describes the general architecture, all major functionalities and propose several science cases (simulation rendering, mission preparation, etc.) which can be easily replayed by the interested readers. Future developments are finally outlined. See also http://3dview.cdpp.eu | PSS_2016_277 | REVIEW | |
Alexis Rouillard, et al | A propagation tool to connect remote-sensing observations with in-situ measurements of heliospheric structures | The remoteness of the Sun and the harsh conditions prevailing in the solar corona have so far limited the observational data used in the study of solar physics to remote-sensing observations taken either from the ground or from space. In contrast, the `solar wind laboratory' is directly measured in situ by a fleet of spacecraft measuring the properties of the plasma and magnetic fields at specific points in space. Since 2007, the solar-terrestrial relations observatory (STEREO) has been providing images of the solar wind that flows between the solar corona and spacecraft making in-situ measurements. This has allowed scientists to directly connect processes imaged near the Sun with the subsequent effects measured in the solar wind. This new capability prompted the development of a series of tools and techniques to track heliospheric structures through space. This article presents one of these tools, a web-based interface called the 'Propagation Tool' that offers an integrated research environment to study the evolution of coronal and solar wind structures, such as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), Corotating Interaction Regions (CIRs) and Solar Energetic Particles (SEPs). These structures can be propagated from the Sun outwards to or alternatively inwards from planets and spacecraft situated in the inner and outer heliosphere. In this paper, we present the global architecture of the tool, discuss some of the assumptions made to simulate the evolution of the structures and show how the tool connects to different databases. | PSS_2016_339 | REVIEW | |
Vincent Génot, et al | TREPS, a tool for coordinate and time transformations in space physics | TREPS, a user friendly online tool which helps performing coordinate transformations, is presented. The coordinate frames commonly used in planetology and heliophysics are available. They are described internally as SPICE kernels developed by NASA/NAIF. The usage of the tool is simplified by its clear, 4-step approach and the many import/export facilities. In particular the interoperability with external services is made possible via the use of standard Virtual Observatory technology. | PSS_2016_320 | REVIEW | |
D. Morrison, et al | High-Level Location Based Search Services That Improve Discoverability of Geophysical Data in the Virtual ITM Observatory | ? | |||
Alan Macfarlane (ESA) | Improving accessibility and discovery of ESA planetary data through the new Planetary Science Archive | The Planetary Science Archive (PSA) is the European Space Agency's (ESA) repository of science data from all planetary science and exploration missions. The PSA provides access to scientific datasets through various interfaces at http://psa.esa.int. All data sets are scientifically peer-reviewed by independent scientists, and are compliant with the Planetary Data System (PDS) standards. Mostly driven by the evolution of the PDS standards which all new ESA planetary missions shall follow and the need to update the interfaces to the archive, the PSA has undergone an important re-engineering. In order to maximise the scientific exploitation of ESA's planetary data holdings, significant improvements have been made by utilising the latest technologies and implementing widely recognised open standards. To facilitate users in handling and visualisng the many products stored in the archive which have spatial data associated, the new PSA supports Geographical Information Systems (GIS) by implementing the standards approved by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The modernised PSA also attempts to increase interoperability with the international community by implementing recognised planetary science specific protocols such as the PDAP (Planetary Data Access Protocol) and EPN-TAP (EuroPlanet-Table Access Protocol). In this paper we describe some of the methods by which the archive may be accessed and present the challenges that are being faced in consolidating data sets of the older PDS3 version of the standards with the new PDS4 deliveries into a single data model mapping to ensure transparent access to the data for users and services whilst maintaining a high performance. | PSS_2016_342 | REVIEW | |
Besse, et al. (ESA) | ESA's Planetary Science Archive: Preserve and Present Reliable Scientific Data sets | The European Space Agency (ESA) Planetary Science Archive (PSA) is undergoing a significant refactoring of all its components to improve the services provided to the scientific community and the public. The PSA supports ESA's missions exploring the Solar System by archiving scientific peer-reviewed observations as well as engineering data sets. This includes the Giotto, SMART-1, Huygens, Venus Express, Mars Express, Rosetta, Exomars 2016, Exomars RSP, BepiColombo, and JUICE missions. The PSA is offering a newly designed graphical user interface which is simultaneously meant to maximize the interaction with scientific observations and also minimise the efforts needed to download these scientific observations. The PSA still offers the same services as before (i.e., FTP, documentation, helpdesk, etc.). In addition, it will support the two formats of the Planetary Data System (i.e., PDS3 and PDS4), as well as providing new ways for searching the data products with specific metadata and geometrical parameters. As well as enhanced services, the PSA will also provide new services to improve the visualisation of data products and scientific content (e.g., spectra, etc.). Together with improved access to the spacecraft engineering data sets, the PSA will provide easier access to scientific data products that will help to maximize the science return of ESA's space missions. | PSS_2016_341 | REVIEW | |
M. Barthélémy, et al (ESA) | ROSETTA: How to archive more than 10 years of mission | The Rosetta satellite was launched in 2004 and after a 10 year journey arrived at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in August 2014. This paper describes how the Planetary Science Archive (PSA) and the Planetary Data System – Small Bodies Node (PDS-SBN) worked with the Rosetta instrument teams to prepare the science data collected during the course of the ROSETTA mission for long-term archiving. The PSA is the repository for all scientific and engineering data returned by ESA’s Solar System missions. As Rosetta is an international mission the data are also archived in the PDS. The PDS archives and distributes scientific data from NASA planetary missions, astronomical observations, and laboratory measurements. The SBN is specialized in the archiving of data sets relevant to asteroids, comets and interplanetary dust. This paper describes what the long-term archive is and the Rosetta archiving approach, its evolution throughout the mission and the science review needed to fully validate the data. It also describes the tools that support the archiving process. Then, we look to the future when Rosetta has finished its operational mission and describe the improvements planned for the archive and the data delivered to it. Finally, we present the lessons learned after these first 13 years of archiving on Rosetta. | PSS_2016_105 | REVIEW | |
Trent Hare et al | Interoperability in Planetary Research for Geospatial Data Analysis | For more than a decade there has been a push in the planetary science community to support interoperable methods for accessing and working with geospatial data. Common geospatial data products for planetary research include image mosaics, digital elevation or terrain models, geologic maps, geographic location databases (e.g., craters, volcanoes) or any data that can be tied to the surface of a planetary body (including moons, comets or asteroids). Several U.S. and international cartographic research institutions have converged on mapping standards that embrace standardized geospatial image formats, geologic mapping conventions, U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) cartographic and metadata standards, and notably on-line mapping services as defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The latter includes defined standards such as the OGC Web Mapping Services (simple image maps), Web Map Tile Services (cached image tiles), Web Feature Services (feature streaming), Web Coverage Services (rich scientific data streaming), and Catalog Services for the Web (data searching and discoverability). While these standards were developed for application to Earth-based data, they have been modified to support the planetary domain. This work outlines the current state of interoperability initiatives in use or in the process of being researched within the planetary geospatial community. | PSS_2016_289 | REVIEW | |
Baptiste Cecconi, et al | Juno-Ground-Radio Observation Support Tools | PSS_2016_360 | online version (read-only) | DRAFT | |
Baptiste Cecconi, et al | VOEvent for planetary sciences | PSS_2016_279 | online version (read-only) | DRAFT | |
Stéphane Erard et al | Planetary spectroscopy tools in the VO | Centered on use cases, both surface and atmosphere applications. Identify std workflows for data handling / analyses (somewhat included in the VESPA paper) | CANCELED | ||
Nicolas André et al | Virtual Planetary Space Weather Services offered by the Europlanet H2020 Research Infrastructure | Under Horizon 2020, the Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastructure (EPN2020-RI) will include an entirely new Virtual Access Service, “Planetary Space Weather Services” (PSWS) that will extend the concepts of space weather and space situational awareness to other planets in our Solar System and in particular to spacecraft that voyage through it. PSWS will make five entirely new ‘toolkits’ accessible to the research community and to industrial partners planning for space missions: a general planetary space weather toolkit, as well as three toolkits dedicated to the following key planetary environments: Mars (in support of the European Space Agency (ESA) ExoMars missions), comets (building on the expected success of the ESA Rosetta mission), and outer planets (in preparation for the ESA JUpiter ICy moon Explorer mission). This will give the European planetary science community new methods, interfaces, functionalities and/or plugins dedicated to planetary space weather in the tools and models available within the partner institutes. It will also create a novel event-diary toolkit aiming at predicting and detecting planetary events like meteor showers and impacts. A variety of tools (in the form of web applications, standalone software, or numerical models in various degrees of implementation) are available for tracing propagation of planetary and/or solar events through the Solar System and modelling the response of the planetary environment (surfaces, atmospheres, ionospheres, and magnetospheres) to those events. But these tools were not originally designed for planetary event prediction and space weather applications. PSWS will provide the additional research and tailoring required to apply them for these purposes. PSWS will be to review, test, improve and adapt methods and tools available within the partner institutes in order to make prototype planetary event and space weather services operational in Europe at the end of the programme. To achieve its objectives PSWS will use a few tools and standards developed for the Astronomy Virtual Observatory (VO). This paper gives an overview of the project together with a few illustrations of prototype services based on VO standards and protocols. | PSS_2016_343 | http://arxiv.org/abs/1701.01354
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Nicolas André et al | 3DView use case: In-situ detection of geysers during Cassini Enceladus flybys | Using VESPA developments in 3DView for adding maps in the tool. Optionally two parts:
| CANCELED | ||
Nicolas André et al (TBC) | Europlanet tools and data in support of the Juno mission | AMDA/APIS connection, Jupiter data in AMDA and 3DView, Magnetic field model in AMDA and 3DView, 1D MHD Propagation, link with Cecconi paper on ground-based support for Juno | CANCELED | ||
Ronan Modolo, et al | The LatHyS database for planetary plasma environment investigations. Comparison between MAVEN and Mars Express observations and simulation results - a case study. | The Latmos Hybrid Simulation (LatHyS) database dedicated to the investigations of planetary plasma environment is presented. Simulations results of several planetary objects (Mars, Mercury, Ganymede) are proposed in an online catalogue. The full description of the simulations and their results is compliant with a data model developped in the frame of the FP7 IMPEx project. The catalogue is interfaced with VO-visualization tools such AMDA, 3DView, TOPCAT, CLweb or the IMPEx portal. Webservices ensure the possibilities to access and extract simulated quantities/data. To illustrate the interoperability between the simulation database and VO-tools, a science case is detailed. We focused on a three-dimensional representation of the solar wind interaction with the Martian upper atmosphere, combining MAVEN and Mars Express observations and simulation results. | PSS_2016_315 | submitted version | REVIEW |
IMPEx team | IMPEx | CANCELED | |||
Todd King et al | ? | NASA/PDS/PPI contribution | CANCELED | ||
R. Marco Figuera, et al. | Online characterization of planetary surfaces: PlanetServer, an open-source analysis and visualization tool | In this paper we present the new PlanetServer, a set of tools comprising a web Geographic Information System (GIS) and a recently developed Python API capable of analyzing a wide variety of hyperspectral data from different planetary bodies. The research case studies are focusing on 1) the characterization of different hydrosilicates such as chlorites, prehnites and kaolinites in the Nili Fossae area on Mars, and 2) the characterization of ice (\ce{CO2} and \ce{H2O} ice) in two different areas of Mars where ice was reported in a nearly pure state. Results show positive outcome in hyperspectral analysis and visualization compared to previous literature, therefore we suggest using PlanetServer for such investigations. | PSS_2016_353 | https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.01726 | REVIEW |
F. Poulet et al. | PSUP: a Planetary SUrface Portal | The large size and complexity of planetary data acquired by spacecraft during the last two decades create a demand within the planetary community for access to the archives of raw and high level data and for the tools necessary to analyze these data. Among the different targets of the Solar System, Mars is unique as the combined datasets from the Viking, Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, Mars Express and Mars Reconnaissance missions provide a tremendous wealth of information that can be used to study the surface of Mars. The number and the size of the datasets are so important that an information system to process, manage and distribute data can be very useful. In this framework, the Observatories of Paris Sud (OSUPS) and Lyon (OSUL) have developed a portal, called PSUP (Planetary SUrface Portal), for providing users with efficient and easy access to data products dedicated to the Martian surface. The objectives of the portal are: 1) to allow processing and downloading of data via a specific application called MarsSI (Martian surface data processing Information System); 2) to provide the visualization and merging of high level (image, spectral, and topographic) products and catalogs via a web-based user interface (MarsVisu), and 3) to distribute some of these specific high level data with an emphasis on products issued by the science teams of OSUPS and OSUL. As the MarsSI service is extensively described in a companion paper (Quantin-Nataf et al., submitted), the present paper focus on the general architecture and the functionalities of the web-based user interface MarsVisu. This service provides access to many data products for Mars: albedo, mineral and thermal inertia global maps from spectrometers; mosaics from imagers; image footprints and rasters from the MarsSI tool; high level specific products (defined as catalogs or vectors). MarsVisu can be used to quickly assess the visualized processed data and maps as well as identify areas that have not been mapped yet. It also allows overlapping of these data products on a virtual Martian globe, which can be difficult to use collectively. The architecture of PSUP data management layer and visualization is based on SITools2 and MIZAR respectively, two CNES generic tools developed by a joint effort between the French space agency (CNES) and French scientific laboratories. Further developments including the addition of high level products of Mars (regional geological maps, new global compositional maps…) and tools (spectra extraction from hyperspectral cubes) are foreseen. Ultimately, PSUP will be adapted to other planetary surfaces and space missions in which the French research institutes are involved. | PSS_2016_285 | REVIEW | |
Charles Acton | A Look Towards the Future in the Handling of Space Science Mission Geometry | The “SPICE” system has been widely used since the days of the Magellan mission to Venus as the method for scientists and engineers to access a variety of space mission geometry such as positions, velocities, directions, orientations, sizes and shapes, and field-of-view projections. While originally focused on supporting NASA’s planetary missions, the use of SPICE has slowly grown to include most worldwide planetary missions, and it has also been finding application in heliophysics and other space science disciplines. This paper peeks under the covers to see what new capabilities are being developed or planned at SPICE headquarters to better support the future of space science. | PSS_2016_245 | submitted version | REVIEW |
Ricardo Hueso et al. | The Planetary Virtual Observatory and Laboratory (PVOL) and its integration into the Virtual European Solar and Planetary Access (VESPA) | Since 2003 the Planetary Virtual Observatory and Laboratory (PVOL) has been storing and serving publicly through its web site a large database of amateur observations of the Giant Planets (Hueso et al., 2010a). These images are used for scientific research of the atmospheric dynamics and cloud structure on these planets and constitute a powerful resource to address time changing phenomena in their atmospheres. Advances over the last decade in observation techniques, and a wider conscience by professional astronomers of the quality of amateur observations, have resulted in the necessity to upgrade this database. We here present major advances in the PVOL database that has evolved into a full virtual planetary observatory encompassing also observations of Mercury, Venus, Mars, the Moon and the Galilean satellites. Besides the new objects, the images can be tagged and the database allows simple and complex searches over the data. The new web service: PVOL2 is available online in http://pvol2.ehu.eus/ , contains a fully functional search engine and constitutes one of the many services included in VESPA (Virtual Europan Solar and Planetary Access). Data from PVOL2 can be served from the VESPA portal using the EPN-TAP protocol. PVOL2 also provides long-term storage to amateur observations containing about 30,000 amateur observations starting in the year 2000. Current and past observations from the amateur community provide a global view of the Solar System planets over the years with several possibilities for scientific analysis and amateur astronomers involvement in planetary science. | PSS_2016_325 | http://arxiv.org/abs/1701.01977 | REVIEW |
Trompet Loïc, et al. | Description, accessibility and usage of SOIR/VenusExpress atmospheric profiles of Venus distributed in VESPA (Virtual European Solar and Planetary Access). | Venus Express SOIR profiles of pressure, temperature and number densities of different constituents of the mesosphere of Venus are now available in the VESPA infrastructure. This paper describes the content of these data products and provides some use cases. | PSS_2016_284 | REVIEW | |
Quantin-Nataf, Cathy et al. | MarsSI: Martian surface data processing Information System | MarsSI (Acronym for Mars System of Information, https://emars.univ-lyon1.fr/MarsSI/) is a web Geographic Information System application which helps managing and processing Martian orbital data. The MarsSI facility is part of the web portal called PSUP (Planetary SUrface Portal) developed by the Observatories of Paris Sud (OSUPS) and Lyon (OSUL) to provide users with efficient and easy access to data products dedicated to the Martian surface. The portal proposes 1) the management and processing of data thanks to MarsSI and 2) the visualization and merging of high level (imagery, spectral, and topographic) products and catalogs via a web-based user interface (MarsVisu). The portal PSUP as well as the facility MarsVisu is detailed in a companion paper (Poulet et al., this issue). The purpose of this paper is to describe the facility MarsSI. From this application, the users are able to easily and rapidly select observations, to process raw data via proposed automatic pipelines and to get back final products which can be visualized under Geographic Information Systems. Moreover, MarsSI also proposes an automatic stereo-restitution pipeline in order to produce Digital Terrain Models (DTM) on demand from HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) or CTX (Context Camera) pair-images. This application is funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) (ERC project eMars, No. 280168) and has been developed in the scope of Mars, but the design is applicable to any other planetary body of the solar system. | PSS_2016_344 | REVIEW | |
Hughes, Steve, et al. | Enabling Interoperability in Planetary Sciences and Heliophysics: The Case for an Information Model | "Interoperability" can apply to many aspects of both the developer and the end-user experience. The Planetary Data System PDS4 redesign effort included aspects of interoperable design not only in its information model, but in the development of that model and in the design and implementation of the infrastructure that supports the archive holdings. We discuss how issues of interoperability were addressed in each stage of the design and development process, focusing primarily on semantic interoperability. | PSS_2016_338 | submitted version | REVIEW |