Integrated system to handle and visualize auroral oval data

Space Weather is an integrated science, encompassing the fullcause and effect chain of physical processes from Sun to Earth surface. Data handling and access tools available now usually concentrate on some specific data type,like solar images or time-sequences of spacecraft plasma data. Our prime interest is Earth auroral region, described with a very wide variety of heterogeneousdata, including auroral spacecraft and ground imaging, magneticand electric current vector maps, radars, etc. Currently a tool able to integrate, visualize and process the whole variety of available data is absent. We are developing such a systemfor auroral data storage, access, visualization and analysis. It is based on a Geo-information Web-based System, used in IKIfor remote sensing data, and currently handling more than 2 PB data online, including data computations. This system driver is nowupdated to include geomagnetic coordinate transformations, real-time solar wind data, geomagnetic indices, etc.Currently the system includes DMSP UV data, auroral oval models, and is rapidly filled with other sources.The bonus of using standard remote sensing GIS is availability of real-time weather data for any location.Having in mind huge data volumes typical to remote sensing data,this auroral system is capable to handle almost unlimited amounts of any existingauroral data. The Web-site will be shown at poster.