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Development, Visualization, Retrieval, and Analysis of Multispacecraft Data Sets
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| We propose to produce and disseminate new methods for the retrieval, visualization, and analysis of multi-spacecraft data. Data set browsing will initially be made possible through the use of uniform,
averaged data sets, but the software will be compatible with multi-platform, distributed data retrieval. The work builds on previous visualization and data analysis tools from AISRP-supported and other
work, and will be applicable to nearly all NASA space physics missions, including ISTP, Magnetospheric Constellation and related missions, and the "COHOWeb" missions to the heliosphere. The results will be incorporated into the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) data dissemination tools, allowing scientists and the public to visualize spacecraft data in the 3-D context that it was measured (tied to the spacecraft trajectories) and to download data intervals of interest in directly useable form (interpolated, despiked, etc.).
The software will be developed using common industry tools (e.g., Java3D, OpenGL, C, C++, Fortran, and X) and will be linked to very
extensively used commercial packages such as IDL. Server-based versions of the software will be used for browsing and data set preparation, and stand-alone routines will be available to analyze the data after download. A variety of file formats will be available for downloaded data, and the software will be as platform-independent as possible. To add to the utility of the project, we will develop a
parallel processing version of the retrieval software, so that more and larger data requests can be handled efficiently. |
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