New search capabilities based on observational geometry for Mars Express data in the ESA’s Planetary Science Archive

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Grotheer ◽  
Nicolas Manaud ◽  
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Planetary Science ◽  
Geometrical Parameters ◽  
Search Interface ◽  
Mars Express ◽  
The Public ◽  
Data Products ◽  
Planetary Missions ◽  
Search Capability ◽  
Archived Data

<div>The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express (MEX) mission to Mars has been returning valuable scientific data for ~16 years.  This data is available to the public for free via the Planetary Science Archive (PSA), which houses the raw, calibrated, and higher-level data returned by the ESA’s planetary missions, including data provided by the various MEX instrument teams.  Besides an FTP server, there is also a user interface with different search views available for the public to search for archived data.  Development of a map-based search interface is underway.  As a first step towards this, the geometrical parameters of all the data products from a wide variety of instruments had to be computed in a unified manner.  These values will be used to enable searches based on observational geometry via the Table View, and other views as well.   </div><div>1. The PSA user interfaces</div><div>The ESA’s PSA uses the Planetary Data System (PDS) format developed by NASA to store the data from its various planetary missions.  In the case of MEX, the data is stored in the PDS3 format, which primarily uses ASCII files to store and describe the data.  When first searching for new data, users would benefit from using the Table View search interface [1].  Here the user can search using various parameters, such as mission name, target (e.g. Mars), instrument name, processing level, observation times, etc.  The development of the PSA’s search capabilities continues, thus more search parameters will be added over time.  In particular, this presentation will focus on the development of new filter menus within the Table View to allow for searches based on the observational geometry of the data products. </div><div>Also available in the Table View interface is a section for “Free Search”, allowing one to use Contextual Query Language (CQL) to search over additional parameters.  These various search methods rely mainly on the metadata provided by the instrument teams in the labels associated with each of the data products.  In the case of the observational geometry searches, in order to provide a uniform search capability, the GEOGEN tool was developed by SpaceFrog Design to provide the tables of relevant parameters to be queried.</div><div> </div><div>2. Summary and Conclusions</div><div>Thanks to the efforts of the MEX instrument teams, the MEX Science Ground Segment team, and the PSA Archive Scientists and Engineers, over 16 years worth of observational data from Mars orbit are available to the public.  This data can be freely accessed at the ESA’s PSA, at .  There are multiple ways of browsing the archived data, including those from other planetary missions, though in this presentation we will focus on the new observational geometry search capability that will become available soon. </div><div>The development of the PSA’s user interface is an ongoing project, and we welcome feedback from the community for suggestions on new ways to search this wealth of data.  Feedback and suggestions can be sent to .</div>

Using the ESA’s Planetary Science Archive to Search for Mars Express VMC Data of an Elongated Cloud near Arsia Mons

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Grotheer ◽  
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Planetary Science ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Mars Express ◽  
The Public ◽  
Processing Level ◽  
Public Data ◽  
Planetary Missions

<p><strong>Introduction</strong>: The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express (MEX) mission to Mars has been returning valuable scientific data for ~17 years.  This data is available to the public for free via the Planetary Science Archive (PSA), which houses the raw, calibrated, and higher-level data returned by the ESA’s planetary missions, including data provided by the various MEX instrument teams.  The Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) was originally used to monitor the deployment of the Beagle 2 lander.  In recent years, these images have been worked on by a science team from Bilbao for scientific research.  These raw and processed images of this new ‘8th instrument’ have been included in the PSA, including observations of an elongated cloud near Arsia Mons that garnered considerable public attention [1].  In this presentation we will show how to use the PSA user interface to find this data.</p><p><br><strong>The PSA user interfaces</strong>: The ESA’s PSA uses the Planetary Data System (PDS) format developed by NASA to store the data from its various planetary missions.  In the case of MEX, the data is stored in the PDS3 format, which primarily uses ASCII files to store and describe the data.  There are two primary ways in which to find the data.  One is the FTP area, which houses all the public data in the PSA.  Here, there are no advanced search capabilities, but it does provide access to all the supporting files and documentation for the various datasets.  When first searching for new data, users would benefit from using the web-based search interfaces [2].  Here the user can search using various parameters, such as mission name, target (e.g. Mars), instrument name, processing level, observation times, etc.  The development of the PSA’s search capabilities continues, thus more search parameters continue to be added.  The Image View interface is particularly helpful when looking through browse images provided by the instrument teams.  Recently, a prototype of a new Map View has been made public, in which most of the MEX data can be seen.  These various search methods rely on the metadata provided by the instrument teams in the labels associated with each of the data products.</p><p><strong>Access and Feedback</strong>: All this data can be freely accessed at the ESA’s PSA, at https://archives.esac.esa.int/psa/.  There are multiple ways of browsing the data.  The development of the PSA’s user interface is an ongoing project, and we welcome feedback from the community for suggestions on new ways to search this wealth of data.  Feedback and suggestions can be sent to [email protected].</p><p><strong>References</strong>: <br>[1] Bauer M. (2018, October 25) ESA Science & Exploration. Mars Express keeps an eye on curious cloud. Retrieved from http://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Mars_Express/Mars_Express_keeps_an_eye_on_curious_cloud<br>[2] Besse S., Vallat C., Barthelemy M., Coia D., Costa M., De Marchi G., Fraga D., Grotheer E., Heather D., Lim T., Martinez S., Arviset C., Barbarisi I., Docosal R., Macfarlane A., Rios C., Saiz J., and Vallejo F. (2018) Planetary and Space Science, Vol. 150, pp. 131-140.</p>

Data Visualization and Analysis with NASA's Mercury Trek Online Portal

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Day ◽  
Emily Law ◽  
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Solar System ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Planetary Science ◽  
Dynamic Surface ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Surface Features ◽  
Analysis Tools ◽  
Initial Release ◽  
Data Products

<p><strong>Introduction:</strong>  In its investigations of the planet Mercury, NASA’s MESSENGER returned an immense amount of data detailing the dynamic surface of our solar system’s innermost planet. As the European and Japanese space agencies prepared for the launch of BepiColombo, the next mission to explore Mercury, BepiColombo’s project science team asked NASA to produce a new portal within the Solar System Treks suite (https://trek.nasa.gov) featuring data returned by MESSENGER from Mercury. This new portal would be used both for mission planning and for public outreach by the BepiColombo mission. While initially populated with Messenger data, the portal is also being designed to facilitate visualization, analysis, and dissemination of data from BepiColombo after it commences science operations in orbit around Mercury. The initial release of the Mercury Trek in 2019 shortly followed the launch of BepiColombo on its journey to Mercury.</p> <p><strong>The Mercury Trek Portal:</strong>  The initial release of Mercury Trek in July 2019 featured data products from the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) instrument that operated aboard NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission while in orbit around Mercury from 2011 to 2015. These products include the MDIS Global Mosaic, MDIS BDR Global Mosaic, MDIS Color Global Mosaic, MDIS MD3 Color Global Mosaic, MDIS Enhanced Color Global Mosaic, MDIS LOI (low-incidence angle) Global Mosaic, MDIS Global Digital Elevation Model (DEM), and MDIS Color Hillshade Global map derived from the DEM. An updated release in June 2020 featured enhanced search capabilities, an updated user interface, the option to have user interface control labels in either English or Japanese, and the addition of numerous new data products. These include high resolution MDIS mosaics, DEMs, and slope data for selected regions, and gravimetric maps including crustal thickness, gravity anomaly, gravity degree strength, and gravity disturbance. Also included are 1:5M geologic maps for the Beethoven, Discovery, Kuiper, Michaelangelo, Shakespeare, Tolstoj, and Victoria regions.</p> <p>Mercury Trek’s data visualization capabilities make it easy to stack and blend different data layers in order to optimize depictions of a wide variety of surface features. Data products can be viewed in equatorial, or polar projected views, or on an interactive 3D globe. The Trek interface allows the user to maneuver a first-person visualization of “flying” across the surface of the Mercury.</p> <p>Analysis tools make it easy to measure distances (either straight-line or along a user-defined path) and to create elevation profiles for surface features. Users can draw user-defined bounding boxes across Vesta’s terrain to generate STL or OBJ files for 3D printing. They can also draw a freehand path anywhere across the surface and have Vesta Trek return a QR code that can be scanned into a smartphone (Android or iOS). The smartphone can then be placed into a pair of inexpensive cardboard-compatible goggles. The user will then be able to fly their defined path in virtual reality.</p> <p>We intend to continue working with the BepiColombo mission and the greater planetary science community to enhance the new Mercury Trek portal with additional data products, and solicit suggestions from the community.</p> <p><strong>One Component in an Integrated Suite:</strong>  Mercury Trek is one of a growing number of portals in NASA’s Solar System Treks Project, available at https://trek.nasa.gov. NASA's Solar System Trek online portals for lunar and planetary mapping and modeling provide web-based suites of interactive data visualization and analysis tools to enable mission planners, planetary scientists, students, and the general public to access mapped data products from past and current missions for Mercury, the Moon, Mars, Vesta, Ceres, Titan, seven of Saturn’s smaller icy moons (Dione, Enceladus, Iapetus Mimas, Phoebe, Rhea, and Tethys), Ryugu, and Bennu. As web-based toolsets, the portals do not require users to purchase or install any software beyond current web browsers. These portals are being used for site selection and analysis by NASA and a number of its international partners, supporting upcoming missions.</p> <p><strong>Acknowledgements: </strong>The authors would like to thank the Planetary Science Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, the Science Engagement and Partnerships Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, and the Advanced Explorations Systems Program of NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate for their support and guidance in the development of the Solar System Treks.</p>

scholarly journals Retrieval of ionospheric profiles from the Mars Express MARSIS experiment data and comparison with radio occultation data

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Sánchez-Cano ◽  
O. Witasse ◽  
M. Herraiz ◽  
S. M. Radicella ◽  
J. Bauer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radio Occultation ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Planetary Science ◽  
Mars Express ◽  
Radio Science ◽  
The Public ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Martian Ionosphere ◽  
Occultation Data ◽  
Ionospheric Sounding

Abstract. Since 2005 the Mars Advanced Radar and Ionospheric Sounding experiment (MARSIS) aboard Mars Express has acquired a unique dataset on the ionosphere of Mars made up of ionospheric soundings taken by the instrument working in its active ionospheric sounding (AIS) mode. These soundings play a role similar to those of modern Terrestrial digisondes in the analysis of our planet ionosphere and have allowed us to dramatically improve our knowledge about the Martian ionosphere. This paper describes this kind of data, which are available from the public Planetary Science Archive, and introduces the MAISDAT tool developed by the European Space Agency to analyze and derive the vertical profile of electron density. Comparisons with radio occultation profiles obtained from Mars Express Radio Science instrument are performed to validate the procedure used in this study.

Europe's Path To Mars: The European Space Agency's Mars Express Mission

2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arturo Russo
Keyword(s):  
Selection Process ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Mars Exploration ◽  
Mars Express ◽  
The Public ◽  
Science Programme ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
History Of

Mars Express is the first planetary mission accomplished by the European Space Agency (ESA). Launched in early June 2003, the spacecraft entered Mars's orbit on Christmas day of that year, demonstrating the new European commitment to planetary exploration. Following a failed attempt in the mid-1980s, two valid proposals for a European mission to Mars were submitted to ESA's decision-making bodies in the early 1990s, in step with renewed international interest in Mars exploration. Both were rejected, however, in the competitive selection process for the agency's Science Programme. Eventually, the Mars Express proposal emerged during a severe budgetary crisis in the mid-1990s as an exemplar of a “flexible mission” that could reduce project costs and development time. Its successful maneuvering through financial difficulties and conflicting scientific interests was due to the new management approach as well as to the public appeal of Mars exploration. In addition to providing a case study in the functioning of the ESA's Science Programme, the story of Mars Express discussed in this paper provides a case study in the functioning of the European Space Agency's Science Programme and suggests some general considerations on the peculiar position of space research in the general field of the history of science and technology.

Surveying Mobile Commerce Environments

2005 ◽  
pp. 2702-2711
Author(s):  
Jari Veijalainen ◽  
Mathias Weske
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Credit Card ◽  
Mobile Terminal ◽  
Mobile Commerce ◽  
Public Key ◽  
Mobile Terminals ◽  
The Public ◽  
Authentication And Authorization ◽  
New Phase

During the last five years, the term mobile commerce (m-commerce) has appeared in the vocabulary of business people and researchers. Historically and conceptually, m-commerce can be regarded a new phase in electronic commerce (e-commerce). Although the term was introduced without a clear meaning and it is still lacking a single widely accepted definition, most people would say that the term m-commerce refers to e-commerce activities performed by people while on the move. Thus, m-commerce involves e-commerce transactions where a mobile terminal and a wireless network are used to conduct them. Therefore, m-commerce takes advantage of the e-commerce infrastructure developed for Internet e-commerce. Although in some cases an m-commerce transaction might be an alternative to a regular e-commerce transaction (such as buying a book) performed using a workstation and wired network, in many cases this is not the situation. The limitations of the mobile device - for instance, user interface limitations - are such that it is not attractive to perform typical Internet e-commerce transactions on them. Wireless technologies, combined with so-called ‘Internet-enabled’ terminals, constitute an ideal platform to realize new types of e-commerce transactions that are not possible or reasonable for wired terminals. The small and light, yet powerful, mobile terminals are almost always carried by their owners, just like wallets or watches. They can indeed also store electronic cash, credit card information, tickets, certificates of the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), and so forth. Thus, they can assume the role of an e-wallet, as well as function as authentication and authorization devices in various contexts.

Mars Express spacecraft: design and development solutions for affordable planetary missions

2003 ◽  
Vol 52 (2-6) ◽  
pp. 203-209
Author(s):  
P. Moulinier ◽  
F. Faye ◽  
J.C. Lair ◽  
E. Maliet
Keyword(s):  
Design And Development ◽  
Spacecraft Design ◽  
Mars Express ◽  
Planetary Missions

scholarly journals The Coastal Observing System for Northern and Arctic Seas (COSYNA)

Ocean Science ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burkard Baschek ◽  
Friedhelm Schroeder ◽  
Holger Brix ◽  
Rolf Riethmüller ◽  
Thomas H. Badewien ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Arctic Seas ◽  
The Public ◽  
The North ◽  
Data Products ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Arctic Coast ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. The Coastal Observing System for Northern and Arctic Seas (COSYNA) was established in order to better understand the complex interdisciplinary processes of northern seas and the Arctic coasts in a changing environment. Particular focus is given to the German Bight in the North Sea as a prime example of a heavily used coastal area, and Svalbard as an example of an Arctic coast that is under strong pressure due to global change.The COSYNA automated observing and modelling system is designed to monitor real-time conditions and provide short-term forecasts, data, and data products to help assess the impact of anthropogenically induced change. Observations are carried out by combining satellite and radar remote sensing with various in situ platforms. Novel sensors, instruments, and algorithms are developed to further improve the understanding of the interdisciplinary interactions between physics, biogeochemistry, and the ecology of coastal seas. New modelling and data assimilation techniques are used to integrate observations and models in a quasi-operational system providing descriptions and forecasts of key hydrographic variables. Data and data products are publicly available free of charge and in real time. They are used by multiple interest groups in science, agencies, politics, industry, and the public.

Innovative visualization and analysis capabilities to advance scientific discovery

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Law ◽  
Brian Day ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
Data Science ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Planetary Science ◽  
Analysis Tools ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Data Products ◽  
Advanced Analysis

<p>NASA’s Solar System Treks program produces a suite of interactive visualization and AI/data science analysis tools. These tools enable mission planners, planetary scientists, and engineers to access geospatial data products derived from big data returned from a wide range of instruments aboard a variety of past and current missions, for a growing number of planetary bodies.</p><p>The portals provide easy-to-use tools for browse, search and the ability to overlay a growing range and large amount of value added data products. Data products can be viewed in 2D and 3D, in VR and can be easily integrated by stacking and blending together rendering optimal visualization. Data sets can be plotted and compared against each other. Standard gaming and 3D mouse controllers allow users to maneuver first-person visualizations of flying across planetary surfaces.</p><p>The portals provide a set of advanced analysis tools that employed AI and data science methods. The tools facilitate measurement and study of terrain including distance, height, and depth of surface features. They allow users to perform analyses such as lighting and local hazard assessments including slope, surface roughness and crater/boulder distribution, rockfall distribution, and surface electrostatic potential. These tools faciliate a wide range of activities including the planning, design, development, test and operations associated with lunar sortie missions; robotic (and potentially crewed) operations on the surface; planning tasks in the areas of landing site evaluation and selection; design and placement of landers and other stationary assets; design of rovers and other mobile assets; developing terrain-relative navigation (TRN) capabilities; deorbit/impact site visualization; and assessment and planning of science traverses. Additional tools useful scientific research are under development such as line of sight calculation.</p><p>Seven portals are publicly available to explore the Moon, Mars, Vesta, Ceres, Titan, IcyMoons, and Mercury with more portals in development and planning stages.</p><p>This presentation will provide an overview of the Solar System Treks and highlight its innovative visualization and analysis capabilities that advance scientific discovery.  The information system and science communities are invited to provide suggestions and requests as the development team continues to expand the portals’ tool suite to maximize scientific research.</p><p>Lastly, the authors would like to thank the Planetary Science Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, NASA’s SMD Science Engagement and Partnerships, the Advanced Explorations Systems Program of NASA’s Human Exploration Operations Directorate, and the Moons to Mars Mission Directorate for their support and guidance in the development of the Solar System Treks.</p>

scholarly journals Public Sender Score System (S3) by ESPs for Email Spam Mitigation with Score Management in Mobile Application

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (17) ◽  
pp. 204
Author(s):  
Lucky Kannan ◽  
Jebakumar R
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Ip Address ◽  
Score System ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Email Spam ◽  
Centralized System

Many businesses use email as a medium for advertising and they use emails to communicate with their customers. In the email world, the most common issue that remains unresolved even now is spamming or in other terms unsolicited bulk email. Currently, there is no common way to regulate the practices of an email sender. This proposed system is to formulate a protocol common for all the ESPs or inbox providers and a centralized system that will easily find the spammers and block them. By this method, the Email Service Providers (ESPs) or Inbox Providers need not wait for the sender behaviour and then take actions on the sender or sender domain or sender IP address. Instead, they can get the sender history of reputation from blockchain where the ESPs or Inbox Provider provides a score based on the emails they have received from the sender. The ESPs can get the Public Sender Score(S3) from the mobile application or web application which provides the score management user interface and APIs. The email marketers can also monitor their score through the application.

scholarly journals Retrieval of ionospheric profiles from the Mars Express MARSIS experiment data and comparison with radio-occultation data

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-106
Author(s):  
B. Sánchez-Cano ◽  
O. Witasse ◽  
M. Herraiz ◽  
S. M. Radicella ◽  
J. Bauer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radio Occultation ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Planetary Science ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Mars Express ◽  
Radio Science ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Martian Ionosphere ◽  
Occultation Data ◽  
Ionospheric Sounding

Abstract. Since 2005 the Mars Advanced Radar and Ionospheric Sounding experiment (MARSIS) aboard Mars Express has acquired a unique data set on the ionosphere of Mars made up of ionospheric soundings taken by the instrument working in its Active Ionospheric Sounding (AIS) mode. These soundings play a role similar to those of modern Terrestrial digisondes in the analysis of our planet ionosphere and have allowed us to dramatically improve our knowledge about the Martian ionosphere. This paper describes this kind of data, which are available from the public Planetary Science Archive, and introduces the MAISDAT tool developed by the European Space Agency to analyze and derive the vertical profile of electron density. Comparisons with radio-occultation profiles obtained from Mars Express Radio Science instrument are performed to validate the procedure used in this study.

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