The Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF) Today: Role, Data and Services for the Heliophysics Research Community

Robert M Candey1, Dieter Bilitza2,3, Reine Chimiak4, John F Cooper5, Leonard N Garcia6,7, Codie W Gladney2,8, Bernard T Harris4, Rita C Johnson2,8, Tamara J Kovalick2,8, Nand Lal2, Howard A Leckner2,8, Michael H Liu2,8, Robert E McGuire2, Carolyn Ng1,9, Natalia E Papitashvili2,8, Uthra R Rao1,9, D Aaron Roberts1 and Ronald E Yurow2,8, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 672, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 670, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)George Mason University, Washington, DC, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 580, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliospheric Physics Laboratory, Code 672, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 605, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)SGT, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (8)ADNET Systems Inc. Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)ADNET Systems Inc., Greenbelt, MD, United States
Abstract:
SPDF is designated as a NASA Heliophysics active final archive. Working in cooperation with current operating missions and the heliophysics community, SPDF ingests, preserves and serves a wide range of past and current public science-quality data from the ionosphere into the furthest reach of deep-space exploration. SPDF supports Common Data Format (CDF) and the associated ISTP/SPDF metadata guidelines development and maintenance, with almost all data now being generated and supplied to SPDF by projects using these standards. SPDF’s CDAWeb supports both survey and burst mode data with graphics, listings and data superset/subset functions. These capabilities are available (1) through our HTML user interface, (2) through calls to our CDAS web services API, and (3) through other interfaces and libraries using the CDAS web services or that otherwise access our holdings. All public data held by SPDF are also available for direct file download by HTTP or FTP links from the SPDF home page (https://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov). SPDF is currently receiving and serving from missions including the four MMS spacecraft, Van Allen Probes 1/2 and the five THEMIS/ARTEMIS spacecraft, ACE, Cluster 1/2/3/4, DMSP 16/17/18, Geotail, GOES 13/14/15, NOAA/POES 15/16/18/19, MetOP POES 1/2, Stereo A/B, TWINS 1/2, Wind, >120 Ground-Based investigations, and many more). SPDF is working directly with GOLD, ICON and Parker Solar Probe in preparation for archiving and serving these data in the near future. Additional ancillary services of SPDF include spacecraft orbits through SSCWeb and the 4D Orbit Viewer, and ongoing maintenance of the OMNI baseline interplanetary field and plasma parameters database.
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