presentations/2012RBSPSOC
From ViRBO
This presentation is available at http://virbo.org/presentations
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1. Objective
- Summarize metadata efforts.
- Summarize recent ViRBO develoments that may relevant to scenario list.
2. Metadata
2.1. Completed
- Observatory and instrument SPASE descriptions complete for RBSP.
2.2. Pending
- Code to automate transform of CDF Metadata to SPASE NumericalData Records.
- Requires ISTP CDF files (I will get these through Bob McGuire).
2.3. Other
Non-SPASE metadata/information management
- Anticipating need to manage non-SPASE metadata incl. bookmarks, vaps (ViRBO AutoPlot configuration files), "pngwalks", event lists, etc.
- There are now 100s of Autoplot vaps, 10s of bookmark lists, and 10s of pngwalks "out there". I want to make these easy to find.
3. Visualization
3.1. Note
- Three general use-cases for science visualiazation.
- No single application can be used for all. (Although some overlap.)
- There is a need for all three types of options.
| Use case | Primary Interface | GUI type | Calculations | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quick overview and browse | web browser | simple | little | ViViz,Quicklook |
| Comprehensive visualization | not web browser | sophisticated | some | MIDL, Autoplot |
| Output from analysis | command line/script | minimal | any | TDAS |
3.2. Update 1: New Autoplot Release
- Final beta testing of SPA announcement for Autoplot. (Draft of Announcement).
- New version comes with 10,000+ bookmarks (try it)
This release introduces three types of bookmarks:
- Raw
- Selecting a raw bookmark will result in an attempt at an automatic single-panel display of data from a given data provider.
- Some GUI interaction may be required for some bookmarks.
- ~80% of the CDAWeb Raw Bookmarks should "just work".
- Special Views
- Stylized plots using data from many data providers. For examples, see the ViRBO sub-folder.
- Growing list of Special Views: http://virbo.org/gallery
- To interact with data, Start Autoplot and select
Bookmarks->Heliophysics->ViRBO(bookmarks take ~5 seconds to load). - Special Views are generally created by scientists using the Expert GUI mode and Raw Bookmarks and then contributed to ViRBO's Special Views repository.
- A tutorial for creating special views will be presented at the Summer 2012 GEM workshop.
- Overviews
- A data set for which the initial view is of the full time range of available data. Draw a box on a time range to zoom in on a specific time interval.
- Overviews are available in Autoplot under the
ViRBObookmarks folder. - Overviews will eventually be available from a web browser (demo page: [1]).
3.3. Update 2. New Visualization Options
Introducing ViViz (ViRBO Visualizations)
- Tools for browsing data in a web browser
- It is an out-growth of both a research project that needed visualization 1000s of images, each image with certain attributes [2]
Two components:
- Gallery - browse pre-generated Special Views in web browser
- Overview - browse Overviews in web browser
3.4. ViViz Gallery
- Multi-mode browse and sort stylized pre-generated images, each image covering short time range.
- Each image is pre-generated using an Autoplot Special View VAP configuration file
- Each image may have sortable attributes stored in a configuration file
- List of existing galleries: http://virbo.org/gallery
- Eventual interface:
http://viviz.org/gallery?http://server/path/to/thumbnails
3.5. ViViz Overview
- Drill-down browse of certain parameters over long time range.
- Uses Autoplot and TSDS servers on the back-end.
- Under development. See [3] for demo.
3.6. What I need
Information:
- What types of galleries are of interest? Special Views?
- Sample CDF files (I will get these through Bob McGuire).
- Locations that you will store Autoplot bookmark and vap files. I want to make these searchable.
4. Acknowledgments
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