25-10-2012, 12:48 PM
Towards the Development of a Unified Distributed Date System for L1 Spacecraft
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this grant, ‘Towards the Development of a Unified Distributed Data System for L1 Spacecraft’, is to take
the initial steps towards the development of a data distribution mechanism for making in-situ measurements more easily
accessible to the scientific community. Our obligations as subcontractors to this grant are to add our Faraday Cup plasma data
to this initial study and to contribute to the design of a general data distribution system. The year 1 objectives of the overall
project as stated in the GSFC proposal are: 1) Both the rsync and Perl based data exchange tools will be fully developed and
tested in our mixed, Unix, VMS, Windows and Mac OS X data service environment. Based on the performance comparisons,
one will be selected and fully deployed. Continuous data exchange between all L1 solar wind monitors initiated. 2) Data
version metadata will be agreed upon, fully documented, and deployed on our data sites. 3) The first version of the data
description rules, encoded in a XML Schema, will be finalized. 4) Preliminary set of library routines will be collected,
documentation standards and formats agreed on, and desirable routines that have not been implemented identified and
assigned. 5) ViSBARD test site implemented to independently validate data mirroring procedures. The specific MIT tasks over
the duration of this project are the following: a) implement mirroring service for WIND plasma data b) participate in XML
Schema development c) contribute toward routine library.