The Virtual Solar Observatory: Birds of a Feather sessions

VSO BoF session at San Francisco AGU meeting, 2002 December

VSO BoF session at Albuquerque AAS/SPD meeting, 2002 June

In Europe and the US, there are a number of projects planned or underway that will pave the way towards a virtual solar observatory. In such a system, solar observations from many sources will appear to the user as a single vitual archive, eventually allowing complex data comparisons. This session will reveal the details and objectives of these projects and how they relate to each other, and will allow the projects to exchange ideas with each other and with the prospective user base (the audience). All interested parties are welcome.

Currently scheduled speakers (< 5 minutes each):

• Joe Gurman / NASA Goddard (welcome; VSO purpose)

• Rob Bentley / UCL-MSSL (EGSO)

• Terry Kucera / NASA Goddard (LWS data system status)

• VSO design study
  • Rick Bogart / Stanford U.
  • Frank Hill / NSO
  • Piet Martens / Montana State U.

• Neal Hurlburt / LMSAL (The Solar Connector)

• Dominic Zarro / L-3/NASA Goddard (IDL sockets)

• Craig DeForest / SwRI (PDL and VSO)

• open discussion