Information System for Multipurpose Aerospace Research: Structure and Functional Features

Paper number

IAC-06-B1.4.08

Author

Dr. R. Kancheva, Solar-Terrestrial Influences Laboratory, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Year

2006

Abstract

Scientific research aiming at the development of remote sensing (RS) technologies for various applications engages considerable material and intellectual resources. The effective management of these resources includes, first of all, support and updating of the services that provide all the necessary conditions for the profound analysis of the acquired experimental data. That is why the essential increase of the efficiency of the RS scientific projects is achieved by the creation and/or modernization of their information systems (IS) support. Such support can be provided not only by IS developed within the frame of separate research projects, but also by systems created on the basis of specialized informational centers. The development and maintenance of such IS infrastructures are impossible without the implementation of the achievements of modern information technologies.
In the frameworks of a Russian-Bulgarian Project a distributed system infrastructure for aerospace data is being developed. The system consists of a set of archives and is supported by hardware/software facilities allowing the exchange of catalogue and ancillary information in an on-line mode. The infrastructure allows to carry out general and detailed data search and to prepare orders for data delivering. The main attention at this stage of the work is put on the refinement of the system specification, details of interchange and archive formats, the development of software prototypes ensuring metadata exchange between the system’s clusters and accesses to the information resources of the system.
Along with a description of the informational system the paper presents a detailed operational scheme of its standard cluster. The following cluster subsystems are considered in details: 1) A system for data archiving and exchanging, 2) A system for data processing, 3) A system for metadata management, 4) A system for catalogue management, 5) A system for external users’ support. 
As a basis for the development of the system’s infrastructure served the experience acquired during the realization of the International Project PRIRODA on the Space Station Mir.

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