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Europlanet-IDIS Data model: a Data Model for a Planetology Virtual Observatory

2011

IDIS (Integrated and Distributed Information System) is part of the Europlanet project and aims to develop a prototype of a planetology Virtual Observatory. In the frame of its participation to this project, the CDPP (Data Centre for Plasma Physics, based in Toulouse) is developing a new data model to describe the wide variety of data products that can be found in the planetology community, which includes a wide variety of science thematics such as plasma physics, planetary surfaces, interiors, atmospheres or small bodies. This data model is making extensive use of existing standards provided by various groups (IVOA, SPASE...) and its scope is to describe the scientific contents of datasets, in order to be able to locate and retrieve data files corresponding to a given request. The initial version has been developed to describe plasma data, which can be very heterogeneous (time series, spectra, dynamic spectra, maps…). Two models are tested in collaboration with VO-Paris (Virtual Observatory Paris Data Centre) and other Europlanet IDIS partners in order to take into account characteristics of data from other thematics of planetary sciences.

Planetary Sciences Interoperability at VO Paris Data Centre

2015

P. Le Sidaner(1), J. Aboudarham (2), M. Birlan (3), J. Berthier (3), D. Briot (4), X. Bonnin (2), B. Cecconi (2) , C. Chauvin (1), S. Erard (2), F. Henry (2), L. Lamy (2), M. Mancini (5), J. Normand (3), M. Popescu (3), F. Roques (2), R. Savalle (1), J. Schneider (5), A. Shih (1), W. Thuillot (3), S. Vinatier (2) (1) DIO-VO, UMS2201 Obs. Paris/CNRS, Fr (pierre.lesidaner@obspm.fr), (2) LESIA, Obs. Paris/CNRS/UPMC/U. ParisDiderot, Fr, (3) IMCCE/Obs. Paris/CNRS, Fr, (4) GEPI, Obs. Paris/CNRS/U. Paris 7, Fr, (5)LUTH, Obs. Paris/CNRS/U. Paris-Diderot, Fr

ESA Experience in Interoperability: The Role Within the Virtual Observatory

SpaceOps 2006 Conference, 2006

pace based scientific missions have traditionally benefited from cooperation within different agencies and institutions. The European Space Agency has been playing a major role in Space exploration through a number of Scientific missions exploring the skies, covering most of the wavelength spectrum. From the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) in the UV range to the Integral satellite in the Gamma-ray domain, the possibility to share information of already available scientific data in the domain under consideration is welcome as helping to ensure not only the scientific return of the mission but also the quality of possible new observations. Recent ESA planetary missions benefit from interoperability with other agencies, both in proposal handling and in scientific data exploitation. In this paper we show how ESA Space Based Scientific Archives have interoperated with other institutions and projects in the past and how ESA has become a key player in the current definitions of standards from more global and homogeneous interoperability. Its role within the International Virtual Observatory Alliance and in the creation of a NASA-ESA interoperability protocol to share planetary data will be shown.

Developing the International Planetary Data Alliance

2009

The International Planetary Data Alliance (IPDA) is an international organization with a purpose of developing compatible archives for the capture, management and distribution of planetary science data and results.

AstroGrid: the UK's Virtual Observatory Initiative

… Data Analysis Software and Systems XI, 2002

AstroGrid is the UK's Virtual Observatory (VO) initiative. It brings together the principal astronomical data centres in the UK, and has been funded to the tune of ∼£5M over the next three years, via PPARC, as part of the UK e-science programme. Its twin goals are the provision of the infrastructure and tools for the federation and exploitation of large astronomical (X-ray to radio), solar and space plasma physics datasets, and the delivery of federations of current datasets for its user communities to exploit using those tools.

INES: The Next Generation Astronomical Data Distribution System

2001

The IUE Archive was the first astronomical archive to be made accessible on-line, back in 1985, when the World Wide Web didn't even exist. The archive stores more than 110000 spectra which span nearly two decades of Ultraviolet Astronomy. The IUE Newly Extracted Spectra System (INES), a complete astronomical archive and its associated data distribution system, was developed with the goal of delivering IUE data to the scientific community in a simple and efficient form. Data distribution is structured into three levels: a Principal Centre at LAEFF (Laboratory for Space Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, owned by the Spanish National Institute for Aerospace Technology) and its Mirror at CADC, a number of National Hosts (currently 22), and an unlimited number of end users. The INES Principal Centre can be reached at http://ines.vilspa.esa.es.

Virtual Planetary Space Weather Services offered by the Europlanet H2020 Research Infrastructure

Planetary and Space Science

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.

The Virtual Observatory Data, Standards and Tools a technical - user point of view

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2010

In 2002 the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (IVOA) has been created in order to gather efforts on data standardization and dissemination. Since then, the virtual Observatory allowed to spread validated data all over the world and to use data from everywhere from earth. From the standards definitions to development of tools, developers have set up a technical infrastructure used by astronomers to easily search for data and make science with all available products, more tools and more confidence on the quality of data. The goal of this review is to present the state of the art of the VO data, standards and tools. This review focuses on basic astronomer's questions : what kind of data are accessible, how to deal with these data and how to use them.

SERBIAN VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY AND VIRTUAL ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR DATA CENTER (VAMDC)

voparis-twiki.obspm.fr

In this lecture we review recent developments in Serbian Virtual Observatory (SerVO) as well as its relation with the European FP7 project: Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Center -VAMDC. Main components of SerVO are going to be the archive of photographic plates, database of Stark broadening parameters and stellar evolution database. Photographic plates were obtained at Belgrade Observatory from 1936 to 1996. Data for Stark broadening were obtained using semiclassical perturbation and modified semiempirical theories mainly in collaboration with Paris Observatory, and we are organizing them now in the STARK-B database, which will enter also in VAMDC, and will have a mirror site in SerVO. Serbian Virtual Observatory will contain as well a mirror of Darthmouth Stellar evolution database with improvements and VO compatible outputs.