1 / 11

GEM 2007

ViRBO – The Virtual Radiation Belt Observatory. GEM 2007. Bob Weigel, Dan Baker, Eric Kihn, and Mikhail Zhizhin 21 June 2007 Zermatt Resort, Utah. People Involved. PI * Bob Weigel (George Mason University) Data * Dan Baker (CU/LASP, Data and metadata)

conniemoss
Download Presentation

GEM 2007

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. ViRBO – The Virtual Radiation Belt Observatory GEM 2007 Bob Weigel, Dan Baker, Eric Kihn, and Mikhail Zhizhin 21 June 2007 Zermatt Resort, Utah

  2. People Involved PI * Bob Weigel (George Mason University) Data * Dan Baker (CU/LASP, Data and metadata) * Sebastian Boudier (Onera, Data calibration) * Janet Green (NOAA/SEC, Data and metadata) * Shri Kanekal (CU/LASP, Data and metadata) * Reiner Friedel (LANL, Data and calibration) * Paul O'Brien (Aerospace, Data and metadata) Software * Eric Kihn (NOAA/NGDC, ViRBO Web and API) * Mikhail Zhizhin (RFO, ViRBO Web and API) * Jeremy Faden (Cottage Systems, ViRBO Software)

  3. What is a VxO? • A VO is a service that unites services and/or multiple data providers, with a "VxO" doing this for community "x."

  4. Unite? • It depends on what the meaning of “is” is. • Bill Clinton

  5. Unite? • It depends on what the meaning of “unite” is.

  6. ViRBO Effort • ViRBO: A VxO, where x = “Radiation Belt” • Smaller data universe • Smaller community • VxOWare: Software for building a VxO • Bring your own data • Bring your own users

  7. What is a VxO? • Zeroth level (we are here) • A place to find collections of data for x. “List all known radiation belt data from all known data providers.” or “Do a search, get a list of files.”This is not a trivial task. • User downloads data and writes their own file readers for each file format.

  8. What is a VxO? • Level 1 • A place to find synthesized collections of data for x. “Give me data from GOES at this time. Give me data file that holds 3-D simulation results at the same time.” • User downloads a data file and uses a single file reader to get at data from the time interval of interest.

  9. What is a VxO? • Level 2 • A place to mine synthesized data for x. • ? • ?

  10. VxOWare Features • Java codebase, XML database • OpenDAP to access file directories • Shopping Cart features of saving and sharing both data queries and data views • Will eventually be on Sourceforge • Development site: • http://spidrd.ngdc.noaa.gov/virbo • Public site: • http://virbo.org

  11. VxOWare Features (Or, what I want out of my VxO) • Ability for a user to “inject” data (powerpoints and other documents) • Ability for users to correct or update metadata • Ability of a user to comment on a data file

More Related