News
News
- 2013
- 2012
- 2011
- Comprehensive Query Builder main page -- Data Sources are now integrated with Measurement Type and Time Range settings in one convenient panel.
- Start and end date/time control now features easy hour and day increments.
- Available instrument selection lists are updated immediately based on time and measurement type settings.
- A cleaner, quicker Observatory/Instrument/Data Product selection interface -- fewer clicks are required to filter down to the desired Data Products.
- Active instrument parameter control -- ISIS and RPI Plasmagram requests may be tailored to specific instrument settings prior to sending the data query.
- Cluster Active Archive has been integrated into VWO as a Data Source and it is now possible to download WBD granules from the service
- CDAWeb's SPASEQL customized CDF service is now available for select data products from the result page. Just click the
link. - AutoPlot has been integrated into our result pages for granule files that are CDF files. Just click the plot link.
- The SSCWeb 4d Orbit Viewer has been integrated into the result pages for available satellites. Click the
link to launch the application. - Data Sources has been updated to provide a sleeker interface. You can also view SPASE metadata files by double clicking on a resource name in a HTML select box.
- Location Search has been limited to a 3 day time interval.
- Data Sources now works as expected in Internet Explorer 7.
- VWO Messages and Action Alerts -- New message windows are now present which will alert the user of important system and proccess messages as they use the Data Query service. Additionally, the Location Search and Results actions now display nicely formatted alert windows which let the user know what is currently happening with their request.
- Magnetospheric State -- All option dialogs and related text are now in a disabled state by default. A user must enable them via the check box which is located in the row of their required option.
- SPASE Description Keyword Searching -- Users can now search from a preselected list of SPASE description keywords.
- Results Pagination -- Action buttons of Next and Prev. are now in place on the result pages. This allows VWO users to fetch more results than previously possible.
- Intersecting Times -- It is now possible to view all of your intersecting times by clicking the View Intersecting Times button, which is located just above Run Query.
- Default Data Query Page -- The Data Query home page, and action return page, now allows the user to select wave type and keyword.
- HTML Look and Feel Updates -- certain pages and panels of the Data Query now have an improved look and feel.
- 2010
- Data Query -- Check API state: added the ability to check the status of the VHO/VMO query API. If it is unavailable the user will be alerted, and no queries can take place.
- Location Search --
Speed boost: Started using the SSC resolution factor for location searches to minimize
PHP memory overhead. This will enable faster processing and searching over longer time intervals.
Select which satellite location to re-run: Implemented an AJAX location search method, which now supports running one observatory at a time, even if multiple observatories are selected. - Data Sources -- Multiple VxOs available: The data sources now include VWO, VHO and VMO.
- Location Search -- Corrected issue with location search where the connection was terminating abnormally.
- Result Display -- Corrected an issue with the information icon on the result pages.
- 2009
- 2008
Dec.03. A presentation "A Portal for Searching and Accessing Heliophysics Wave Data" given by Shing Fung at the 2013 CAWSES-II Symposium in Nagoya, Japan is now available through the Documents page.
Oct.25. Added a new tutorial document on Schumann resonances available on the Tutorial page.
Oct.25. Added a link to Akebono PWS natural plasma wave CDF data from the Data Resources page
May.06. Added two new tutorials, Four Decades of Space-Borne Radio Sounding, a Radio Science Bulletin article on ionospheric/magnetospheric sounders between 1961 and 2003 and the INAG Bulletin, with links to several documents on the interpretation of ionopsheric sounding data. These are available on the Tutorial page.
May.06. Added a new tutorial, the Mars Express MARSIS Active Ionospheric Sounding Cookbook, plus a link to an annotated MARSIS ionogram. These are available on the Tutorial page.
Apr.15. Added a new tutorial on Digisonde data, available on the Tutorial page.
Apr.15. Added link to the Alouette-2 Data Restoration Project and Data Search page, available from the Data Resources page
Apr.15. Added link to THEMIS Summary Data Viewer, available from the Data Resources page
Apr.15. Added link to DEMETER Quicklook images, available from the Data Resources page
Jan.15. Added links to Van Allen Probes Summary Plots and data and spectrograms from the EMFISIS instrument, available from the Data Resources page
Jan.15. New Tutorial on Magnetospheric Waves courtesy of the Van Allen Probes EMFISIS instrument now available.
Nov.16 Updated the links to HAARP online plots, available from the Data Resources page
Nov.06 Added a new article on using the VWO to most effectively retrieve Cluster Wideband (WBD) data, available on the Tutorial page.
Mar.09 Added a link to an article on how to detect erroneous ISIS-2 digital ionogram files, available on the Tutorial page.
Mar.09 Added links to six ground-based radio observatories on the Data Resources page and a new Tutorial on radiospectrogram analysis of solar bursts
Feb.14. Added a publication by H. Lam et al. entitled, A Multi-Spacecraft Approach to Studying Auroral Kilometric Radiation Using the Virtual Wave Observatory. Access to this PDF file is available on the Documents page.
Jan.27. Added links to data and/or plots for AMPTE-CCE, Helios 1&2, IMP-6, Injun-5, Pioneer Venus Orbiter, and S-Cubed A. These are available on the Data Resources page.
Jan.10. Added links to data access points for Cassini, Galileo and Voyager 1 & 2 wave data sets. These are available on the Data Resources page.
Dec.28 Updated the URL for access to Geotail PWI Dynamic Spectrogram plots. These are available on the Data Resources page.
Dec.06 VWO Data Query 3.0.
Enhancements include:
Dec.06 A presentation, "Using the High-Level Data Search Capability of the Virtual Wave Observatory" given by Shing Fung at the 2011 Fall AGU is now available the the Documents page.
Oct.11 Added a link to the Intercosmos-19 topside sounder website. Now available through the Data Resources page
Oct.05 Added a link to the GIRO DriftBase Portal. Now available through the Data Resources page
Oct.05 A presentation, "Space-Borne Radio-Sounding Investigations Facilitated by the Virtual Wave Observatory (VWO)" given by Robert Benson at the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) General Assembly in Istanbul is now available through the Documents page.
Oct.04 Added links to plots from the HAARP Digisonde, Riometer, and Magnetometers. Now available through the Data Resources page
Sep.14 Added a link to Augsburg College Arctic and Antarctic data sets. Now available through the Data Resources page
August.2 ISIS-1 & ISIS-2 Topside Sounder Ionogram CDF files now accessible through the VWO Data Query
May.4 VWO Data Query 2.3.
Enhancements including:
Enhancements
Modifications
Bug Fixes
February.8 VWO Data Query 2.2.
Enhancements including:
Enhancements
December.15 A presentation, "Towards the VWO Annotation Service: A Success Story of IMAGE RPI Expert Rating System" given by Ivan Galkin at the 2010 Fall AGU in San Francisco is now available through the Documents page.
December.10 VWO Data Query 2.1.
Enhancements and bug fixes including:
Enhancements
November.03 VWO Data Query 2.0.
Major updates to the VWO Data Query system include:
1) A new Data Sources page. These currently show the VWO registered datasets. Features include the ability to select on Observatory, Instrument, or Dataset.
2) A new Location page.
This interface will send queries to the SSC webservice and allow for time range filtering on multiple, independent, sets of location filters.
3) The results from Run Query are now better formatted.
This includes grouping output on instrument, expanding/collapsing levels of detail, and an information icon (i) to the SPASE metadata description.
November.03 A presentation on Ontology of Wave Phenomenon by Ivan Galkin has been added to the Documents page
October.01 An article on Ulysses/URAP interpretation issues is available from the Tutorial page.
September.29 A copy of the VWO poster presented at the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC 2010) is available from the Documents page.
September.06 Added a link to the Ulysses URAP example of typical wave phenomena present in URAP/RAR data, available through the VWO Tutorial page.
August.23 Added a link to Ondrej Santolik's "Examples of Research on Waves in Space Plasmas" available through the VWO Tutorial page.
July.27 Added a link on the Education page to a YouTube video of Richard Feynman discssing electromagnetic waves.
June.30 Added a link to Geotail PWI MCA Survey Plots. Now available through the Data Resources page
June.16 Added a link to the Hawkeye Summary (1/orbit) and Survey (4hr) plots of all instruments plus position, Solar Wind and IMF data. Now available through the Data Resources page
June.15 Added a link to the UMLCAR IMAGE/RPI gallery of interesting plasmagrams as identified by the automated data discovery tool, CORPRAL. Now available through the Data Resources page
May.26 Added a link to Stanford University's VLF Online Data Access site. Now available through the Data Resources page
May.17 A link to a new publication, The Virtual Wave Observatory (VWO): A Portal to Heliophysics Wave Data, by Shing Fung was added to the Documents page
Feb.05 A new database of electron densities derived from IMAGE/RPI dynamic spectrograms is now accesible through the Data Resources page
Feb.05 A link to a new version of the Magnetospheric State Query System (MSQS, v.1.5) is available through the Data Resources page
Jan.07 A copy of a VWO poster presented at the 2009 Fall AGU has been added to the Documents Page
Dec.10 Added several new Magnetopsheric State index options to the VWO Query Builder to reflect upgrades to the MSQS site
Dec.04 Added a link to the Global Ionospheric Radio Observatory (GIRO) under Data Resources
Nov.19 Added a link to the OMNIWeb Plus on the Home Page
Nov.17 Added a link to the VWO Query Builder. It is still under much development so please use gently
July.24. The IMAGE/RPI Daily Dynamic Spectrogram plots are now searchable from the VMO interface.
June.02 A Data Registration Plan listing the upcoming datasets to be added to the VWO has been posted.
May.27. The VWO was selected for funding under ROSES 2007 NNH07ZDA001N-VXO
