The Orbiting Geophysical Observatories

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Towards Geographic Information Observatories

In this work we outline the vision of geographic information observatories, explain how and why GIScience would benefit from broadening its range to studies of the information universe (without necessarily relating it back to the physical universe), how our technology stack puts the GIScience community in a unique position to develop such observatories, and illustrate how these observatories wo...

The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey

The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) is designed to gather the best and deepest multiwavelength data for studying the formation and evolution of galaxies and active galactic nuclei, the distribution of dark and luminous matter at high redshift, the cosmological parameters from distant supernovae, and the extragalactic background light. The program uses the most powerful space– an...

SPASE and the Heliophysics Virtual Observatories

The Space Physics Archive Search and Extract (SPASE) project has developed an information model for interoperable access and retrieval of data within the Heliophysics (also known as space and solar physics) science community. The diversity of science data archives within this community has led to the establishment of many virtual observatories to coordinate the data pathways within Heliophysics...

Radio Wavelength Observatories and the Exploration Architecture

Introduction: Observations at radio wavelengths address key problems in astrophysics and astrobiology including the first light in the Universe (Epoch of Reionization), extrasolar planets, and particle acceleration. The requisite observations require access to wavelengths longer than those that penetrate the Earth's ionosphere, extremely " radio quiet " locations such as the Moon's far side, or...