P.Beltrami 4 th June 2008 ESTEC SWENET Infrastructure Status Report 23rd SWWT Meeting

4 th June rd SWWT SWENET Status Report 2 Contents Some user statistics Latest developments in SWENET –Recent updates to the Internet Portal –New Service Development Activities (SDAs) Current tasks Future Developments

4 th June rd SWWT SWENET Status Report 3 Current Status Objective: –provision of a web based portal to access services and data established in ESAs SW Pilot project –Portal operational since January 2005 –Current tasks involve: General software & hardware maintenance tasks Development of new features Addition of new data sources and SDAs

4 th June rd SWWT SWENET Status Report 4 SWENET Portal Statistics

4 th June rd SWWT SWENET Status Report 5 SWENET Statistics Users: 252 (~35 additional users since November) Sources: 7 external dataproviders (e.g. SEC) + 13 SDAs Database Tables: 215 (207) Datasets: ~100 million ( ) DB Volume: 39 GB (27GB) SWENET start page accesses since Januar 2007 :

4 th June rd SWWT SWENET Status Report 6 User Categories

4 th June rd SWWT SWENET Status Report 7 Latest Updates & Upcoming tasks

4 th June rd SWWT SWENET Status Report 8 Upcoming tasks Finalise implementation of Index Quality Statistics –implementation of quality statistic plots for index forecast, comparing calculated values with measured ones. –Validate the quality of forecasts and predictions of different quantities Scatter Plot Linear Regression Correlation Coefficient Coefficient of Determination

4 th June rd SWWT SWENET Status Report 9 Latest changes Improved image browsing included Animated GIF generation –browsing interface (to search through stored images such as e.g. TEC Maps –Select start date and end date from available images to compare 2 images or to generate an animation Improved web service allows platform independent, automated access to space weather data. –Applications (both web and desktop) can access the data stored in the SWENET space weather database.

4 th June rd SWWT SWENET Status Report 10 Latest changes II New "Latest Alerts" page –display alerts on Ap, Dst, Particle Flux >10 Mev, Kp and X-Ray Flux –Latest Indices page showing relevant space weather indices has been improved. Various changes to the the web interface to improve the "user friendliness –The start page provides additional information on SWENET and the Pilot Project. –The Data Access Interface simplified to combine data, plotting and image search functions, – A quick-search text field incorporated in the right sidebar

4 th June rd SWWT SWENET Status Report 11 Latest changes III –Links to facilitate subscription to regular s –Tutorials link added to the resource section containing step-by-step animated tutorials for various SWENET functions. Create Tables Create 2D Plot Create 3D Plot Image Browsing Get Information by

4 th June rd SWWT SWENET Status Report 12 Upcoming tasks (cont) Addition of new data from SDAs and other external resources –Daily TEC plots from SPECTRE implemented. –TEC maps over Europe as movies covering a whole day –Various SDAs have been discussed for data integration: SWACI (additional ionospheric data) SIDC (Solar data from reports) SEIS/SEISOP (operational data) SAAPS (Predicted Dst, Kp, Dst)) GIC Now! (public part) –Some additional data sources identified to be incorporated into SWENET are: Radiation monitor data (SREM) SEM data from METOP Update of the content of the ESA space weather information pages

4 th June rd SWWT SWENET Status Report 13 Summary Continued maintenace –Increase performance and reliability –Improve usability Finalise index statistics implementation Update of Space Weather website information Addition of new datasets and SDAs

4 th June rd SWWT SWENET Status Report 14 SDA Services Technical GroupsService ExamplesSDAs Ionospheric Effects & Activity Forecast –Effects of space weather on the ionosphere and those technical fields affected by it. Ionosphere fore- & nowcasting TEC Maps GPS quality services Solar activity fore- & nowcasting Radio and SatCom conditions DIFS GIFINT GPS Validation Ionosfera Scint. Quickm. SFC SIDC SOARS SPECTRE STIF SWIPPA TSRS GIC & Ground Effects –Effects of Ground Induced Currents and other ground effects associated to space weather Geomagnetic indices Aurora forecast Ground Induced Current fore- & nowcasting BINCASTS GAFS GIC Forecast GIC Now! GIC Simulator GIFINT GPS Validation ISGI MuSTAnG PipelineSWS SWIMIC Spacecraft and Aircraft –Effects of space weather on on-orbit Spacecrafts and high flying aircraft. Radiation and Space Environment effects on satellites Radiation effects on aircraft GEISHA GEOSHAFT MuSTAnG SAAPS SEIS SOARS

4 th June rd SWWT SWENET Status Report 15 Data Available in SWENET Kp index from the Swedish Institute of Space Physics. Dst values from the Kyoto University Geomagnetic indices from –British Geological Survey (Aa, aa, Ap, ap, DRX, F10.7) –International Service for Geomagnetic Indices (aa, ap) Historical Dst, Kp and Ap data from NOAA Solar Radio Indices from TSRS Data produced by various SWENET SDAs –TEC Maps, Scintillation Quickmaps,Muon Telescope data, foF2 frequency, proton data, geomagnetic act. outlook, SW reports Data from the NOAA/SEC FTP server Additional high resolution data from SEC SOHO solar wind data from the University of Maryland Halo CME Data from the Naval Research Laboratory SIDC Reports

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