SolarSoft
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The Pages are divided into three Sets:
- SolarSoft Overview - general description; complete list of pages...
- Installing and Configuring SolarSoft - how to install, configure and run SSW; SSWDB installation.
- Using SolarSoft - tutorials and user guides, documentation on software packages.
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SolarSoft is a set of integrated
software libraries, data bases, and system utilities which provide a
common programming and data analysis environment for Solar Physics. The
SolarSoftWare (SSW) system is built from Yohkoh,
SOHO, SDAC and Astronomy libraries and draws
upon contributions from many members of those projects. It is primarily
an IDL based system, although some instrument teams integrate
executables written in other languages.
The SSW environment provides a consistent look and feel at widely
distributed co-investigator institutions to facilitate data exchange and
to stimulate coordinated analysis. Commonalities and overlap in solar data
and analysis goals are exploited to permit application of fundamental
utilities to the data from many different solar instruments. The use of
common libraries, utilities, techniques and interfaces minimizes the
learning curve for investigators who are analyzing new solar data sets,
correlating results from multiple experiments or performing research away
from their home institution.
Some of the primary goals of the SSW system are:
- Provide a large reusable SW library
- Provide a system which is largely hardware-system and site
independent
- Promote the use of certain standards which facilitate coordinated
data analysis
- Promote an evolutionary environment
- Provide access to supporting ancillary data bases
- Provide a file-format independent analysis environment
S.L. Freeland (freeland@penumbra.nascom.nasa.gov)
R.D. Bentley (rdb@mssl.ucl.ac.uk)