IMAGE Software Suite

D. L. Gallagher, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Space Science
Department, SD50,  Huntsville, AL 35812
C. Gurgiolo, Bitterroot Basic Research, Hamilton, MT 59840-9369
R. Burley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771
J. L. Green, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771
R. D. Campbell, Computer Science Corporation, Huntsville, AL. 35812

The IMAGE Mission is generating a truly unique set of magnetospheric measurements through 
a first-of-its-kind complement of remote, global observations.  These data are being 
distributed in the Universal Data Format (UDF), which consists of data, calibration, and 
documentation.  This is an open dataset, available to all by request to the National Space 
Science Data Center (NSSDC) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.  Browse data, which 
consists of summary observations, are also available through the NSSDC in the Common Data 
Format (CDF) and graphic representations of the browse data. Access to the browse data can 
be achieved through the NSSDC CDAWeb services or by use of NSSDC provided software tools.  
This presentation documents the software tools, being provided by the IMAGE team, for use 
in viewing and analyzing the UDF telemetry data.  Like the IMAGE data, these tools are 
openly available.  What these tools can do, how they can be obtained, and how they are 
expected to evolve will be discussed.

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Presented at the Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, 
San Francisco, CA., December 15-19, 2000