p.beltrami 4 th june 2008 estec swenet infrastructure status report 23rd swwt meeting

P.Beltrami

4th June 2008 ESTEC

SWENET Infrastructure Status Report

23rd SWWT Meeting

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Contents

• Some user statistics

• Latest developments in SWENET

– Recent updates to the Internet Portal

– New Service Development Activities (SDAs)

• Current tasks

• Future Developments

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Current Status

• Objective:

– provision of a web based portal to access services and data established in ESA’s 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

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SWENET Portal Statistics

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SWENET Statistics• Users: 252 (~35 additional users since November)

• Sources: 7 external dataproviders (e.g. SEC) + 13 SDAs

• Database Tables: 215 (207)

• Datasets: 118.491.806 ~100 million (112.125.218)

• DB Volume: 39 GB (27GB)

• SWENET start pageaccesses since Januar 2007 : 59.737

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User Categories

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May 2008 - 252

Nov 2007 - 217

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Latest Updates & Upcoming tasks

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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

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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.

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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

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Latest changes III

– Links to facilitate subscription to regular emails

– “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 Email

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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

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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

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