The ESA SSA Space Weather Service Network: Data Access and Utilisation within a Distributed Space Weather Service System
Abstract
ESA's Space Safety programme aims at mitigating and preventing the impact of hazards from space on space and ground based infrastructure. Space weather activities within the programme include development of new measurement capabilities along with a network of pre-operational services with the aim to provide timely and reliable space weather information to end users. The ESA SSA Space Weather Service Network, initially established as part of ESA's Space Situational Awareness Programme and now being further developed as part of ESA's Space Safety Programme, consists of approximately 40 institutes and organisations from across the ESA Member States providing data, modelling and expertise as part of five distributed Expert Service Centres. These individual contributions are combined into end user driven services accessed via a centralised space weather web portal. In addition, the Space Weather Coordination Centre (SSCC) provides first line user support through a dedicated helpdesk along with network monitoring, user engagement and training activities. The SSA Space Weather Service Network currently incorporates more than 200 different products ranging from solar data through to geomagnetic data, model outputs and estimations of the effects of space weather conditions on users' infrastructure. The highly distributed and cross-disciplinary nature of the network necessitates the development of a consistent information architecture and approach to information exchange in order to enable interoperability within the network with the aim of providing improved services to end users. This presentation will describe progress achieved to date in the use of standard data models, metadata and data access protocols for the SSA Space Weather Service Network, along with future prospects in the context of ongoing consolidation of the service system design.
- Publication:
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43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 28 January - 4 February
- Pub Date:
- January 2021
- Bibcode:
- 2021cosp...43E2381G