PROGRAM: 3-1
Title:
IUGONET ACTIVITIES FOR DATA SHARING OF UPPER ATMOSPHERIC DATA AND CAPACITY BUILDING2Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Japan
3International Center for Space Weather Science and Education, Kyushu University, Japan
4Graduate School of Science, Data Analysis Center for Geomagnetism and Space Magnetism, Kyoto University, Japan
5Graduate School of Science, Kwazan and Hida Observatories, Kyoto University, Japan
Abstract:
We introduce activities to provide infrastructure and opportunity for upper atmospheric research and to promote
interdisciplinary study, which have been made by Inter-university Upper atmosphere Global Observation
NETwork (IUGONET) project. IUGONET is a Japanese inter-university project, which was established in 2009
by Tohoku University, Nagoya University, Kyoto University, Kyushu University, and National Institute of Polar
Research to develop the infrastructure for sharing their upper atmospheric data, including solar and planetary
data (Hayashi et al., 2013).
We have developed two tools, i.e., a metadata database and an analysis software for the upper atmospheric data
(Tanaka et al., 2013; Abe et al., 2014). The metadata database enables users to cross-search various kinds of the
upper atmospheric data distributed across the IUGONET members. A new metadata database, IUGONET
Type-A, which was released in November 2016, provides one-stop services such as searching data, showing
information of the data (i.e., metadata and quick-look plot of the data), finding interesting phenomena,
interactively visualizing the data, and leading users to more detailed data analysis by using a dedicated analysis
software, Space Physics Environment Data Analysis Software (SPEDAS). SPEDAS is a grass-roots software
that was written by Interactive Data Language (IDL) and was developed by scientists and programmers of the
Space Sciences Laboratory at the UC Berkeley, the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at
UCLA and other contributors. It is capable of dealing with data from multiple satellite and ground-based
missions. We have provided a plug-in software for SPEDAS, which allows users to analyze the data obtained by
the IUGONET members with various instruments, such as solar telescope, ionospheric and atmospheric radars,
imagers, riometers, magnetometers, and so on. In addition, we hold data analysis workshops to explain how to
use these IUGONET tools and data in Japan and sometimes foreign countries several times a year. In particular,
we are planning to have workshops in Nigeria, Africa, and Indonesia, South East Asia in FY2017, in
collaboration with a project of the Core-to-Core Program of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
(JSPS), “Study of GNSS satellite anomaly in the Asian and African equatorial region”. We believe that the
IUGONET tools should be useful for the capacity building in Asia and Africa.
References:
Hayashi, H., Y. Koyama, T. Hori, Y. Tanaka, S. Abe, A. Shinbori, M. Kagitani, T. Kouno, D. Yoshida, S. UeNo,
N. Kaneda, M. Yoneda, N. Umemura, H. Tadokoro, T. Motoba, and IUGONET project team (2013),
Inter-university Upper Atmosphere Global Observation NETwork (IUGONET), Data Sci. J., 12,
WDS179-WDS184.
Tanaka, Y., A. Shinbori, T. Hori, Y. Koyama, S. Abe, N. Umemura, Y. Sato, M. Yagi, S. Ueno, A. Yatagai, Y.
Ogawa and Y. Miyoshi (2013), Analysis software for upper atmospheric data developed by the IUGONET
project and its application to polar science, Adv. Polar Sci., 24, 231-240, doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1085.2013.00231.
Abe, S., N. Umemura, Y. Koyama, Y. Tanaka, M. Yagi, A. Yatagai, A. Shinbori, S. UeNo, Y. Sato and N. Kaneda
(2014), Progress of the IUGONET system - metadata database for upper atmosphere ground-based observation
data, Earth, Planets and Space, 66, doi: 10.1186/1880-5981-66-133.