EGU24-10946, updated on 08 Mar 2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-10946
EGU General Assembly 2024
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The VirES service as a platform for accessing and analysing geomagnetic data

Ashley Smith1, Martin Pačes2, Daniel Santillan2, and the ESA & Swarm DISC*
Ashley Smith et al.
  • 1University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
  • 2EOX IT Services, Vienna, Austria
  • *A full list of authors appears at the end of the abstract

VirES is an ESA service which was been developed to support the goals of the Swarm mission, providing a number of mechanisms for accessing and working with Swarm products. It has since been extended to cover other LEO datasets under the Swarm umbrella: calibrated platform magnetometer data from Cryosat-2, GRACE, GRACE-FO, GOCE, as well as INTERMAGNET ground observatory data, with plans for more. We provide a graphical web interface (currently only supporting Swarm data) [1], API-based access via both the OGC standards and the HAPI specification [2], a Python client [3], and a Jupyter-powered cloud environment (so-called Virtual Research Environment - VRE) and associated notebook collection [4]. Through these connected approaches, we provide a variety of pathways for interaction with the data and models (see also: the Swarm data handbook [5]).

Swarm activities are shifting to toolboxes and on-demand processing (to interactively deliver higher-level products), more open-source software, and more connection with other datasets and data providers. We provide some of these Python tools preinstalled in the VRE alongside other thematic libraries, and are developing SwarmPAL [6] in collaboration with the Swarm community.

These works contain contributions from EOX IT Services and many people across ESA, Swarm DISC, and the wider community.

[1] https://vires.services
[2] https://vires.services/hapi
[3] https://viresclient.readthedocs.io
[4] https://notebooks.vires.services
[5] https://swarmhandbook.earth.esa.int
[6] https://swarmpal.readthedocs.io

ESA & Swarm DISC:

See https://earth.esa.int/eogateway/missions/swarm and https://swarmdisc.org/

How to cite: Smith, A., Pačes, M., and Santillan, D. and the ESA & Swarm DISC: The VirES service as a platform for accessing and analysing geomagnetic data, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-10946, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-10946, 2024.

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