The VSO Interface to SDO Data - On Top and Underneath

The VSO will be an integral part of distributing SDO data to the Solar Physics community and in enabling it to be searched by scientists. The VSO has been working on enhancing various aspects of its infrastructure to specifically support the many challenges that SDO will provide. The VSO will provide a dedicated interface to SDO data, providing common methods users of VSO already know, as well as new methods that reflect the needs of interacting with AIA, HMI and EVE data. VSO has also been instrumental in creating a distributed search infrastructure that will enable the scientist to retrieve SDO data in the fastest possible way. This is described in detail at this meeting in "Enabling Distributed Acccess to SDO Data with VSO" by Suarez Sola et al. VSO is working closely with the Helioviewer and Heliophysics Event Knowledgebase (HEK) teams to ensure we will be able to use their efforts and be used by their efforts for data retrieval. In this manner both graphical and event approaches to data discovery will be fully supported by the VSO.