Space Science Informatics: A Canadian Approach

Abstract

The rapidly increasing volume of space science data is leading to a growing need for tools for scientists to access, analyze, and share data. To address this need, the Canadian Space Science Data Portal (CSSDP) provides space scientists with access to a wide range of space data, observations, and investigative tools. CSSDP serves as a one‐stop shop for scientists to discover, gather, and visualize relevant data. The data portal has embedded analysis tools and workflows to simplify common research tasks, along with a rich collaboration framework to develop and share scientific findings (see Figure 1). The data portal is accessible at http://www.cssdp.ca.

Research Environment and Information Service of the Space Weather Cloud

“…New data is coming from satellites, ground-based observational networks, numerical simulations, etc. It is urgent to construct a computing platform to efficiently process both observation and simulation data together (Baker & Barton, 2008;Hey et al, 2009;Rankin, 2011). Our cloud computing system will be an example to meet this demand, and it is expected that new knowledge about space weather will be extracted from our data intensive studies using the Space Weather Cloud.…”

“…It is difficult to cover the whole of this vast space using only the existing observational framework. We need a new environment to analyze both the observation data and simulation data in an integrated manner (Baker & Barton, 2008;Rankin, 2011). Added to this, the amount of data on space weather has been increasing year by year because of a remarkable increase in new data from ground-based observations, observations using spacecraft, and simulation models.…”

First Observations of GNSS Ionospheric Scintillations From DemoGRAPE Project

“…Besides the novelty of a pair of scintillations monitors, DemoGRAPE relies, for the first time within the ionospheric science in Antarctica, on the Cloud technology (Figure ) [ Rankin et al , ]. The data acquired in Antarctica, the related applications, and derived products are managed via an innovative method for data management based on Docker containers and Cloud computing technology infrastructure [ Mossucca et al ., ].…”