SWENET – ESA’s portal for Services and Data on Space Weather Effects

Paper number

IAC-06-C2.P.1.03

Author

Mr. Pablo Beltrami, eta_max Space GmbH, Germany

Coauthor

Mr. Kai Ruhl, eta_max Space GmbH, Germany

Coauthor

Dr. Alain Hilgers, European Space Agency (ESA), The Netherlands

Coauthor

Dr. Alexi Glover, European Space Agency (ESA)/ESTEC, The Netherlands

Coauthor

Mr. Daniel Heynderickx, Belgium

Year

2006

Abstract

The Space Weather European Network (SWENET) Software Infrastructure is a web based data system providing access to a wide range of services and data related to the space environment and its effects.

The infrastructure has been developed by eta\_max space and BIRA in the frame of ESA's Space Weather Pilot Project. It provides a central access point to services developed in the various pilot project activities including applications for the analysis of space weather effects on spacecrafts. SWENET also provides a wide range of data on the space environment, collecting it from various external sources and making it available through a common database. Users can search data from specific time periods and combine different sources, providing a powerful analysis tool. The results can then be either displayed in the web browser, downloaded as text files or plotted graphically. A direct FTP access also allows users to directly interface tools with the space environment database. Daily reports related to space weather conditions and solar activity are provided. The reports can either be viewed as a "Message of the Day" or received by email. Past reports can also be browsed though the web interface. An automatic service also sends data sets and alerts for the most important space weather indices via email.

This paper provides an overview of the numerous capabilities of the SWENET infrastructure as a space environment information center, highlighting the most important services and functions.

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