SWIFTER - Space Weather Informatics, Forecasting, and Technology through Enabling Research - and Research to Operations
Abstract
Space weather, the changes in the near-Earth space environment, is important to a wide range of users as well as the public. These users extend across a wide range of public, commercial, and military organizations. It is hard for the research community to connect to these users in a way that can translate data into knowledge, and knowledge into actionable information. The research community also must work within the confines of academic disciplines and funding organizations. This situation calls for better knowledge management and a virtual organization to support that knowledge. SWIFTER is a concept for a virtual organization that will use knowledge management techniques to help refine data products, leverage the expertise to a wider community, speed the development of new data products, and provide a resource for collaboration between users and researchers. Here we will discuss the discuss the structure and operation of the SWIFTER virtual organization, and how it can enable better transition of research tools to operational assets.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2009
- Bibcode:
- 2009AGUFMSA43A1604S
- Keywords:
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- 1908 INFORMATICS / Cyberinfrastructure;
- 6699 PUBLIC ISSUES / General or miscellaneous;
- 7924 SPACE WEATHER / Forecasting;
- 7964 SPACE WEATHER / Policy