PAPCO Data Analysis Workshop
Los Alamos National Laboratory, January 13/14, 1998
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PAPCO Data Analysis Workshop
Los Alamos National Laboratory, January 13/14, 1998
Contents
Audience
Purpose of workshop
What is PAPCO?
Timetable
Important dates
Contact Information
Attendees registered
List of all Workshop announcements
Map of Lab Tech Area 3
PAPCO
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PAPCO Data Analysis Workshop
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Audience
This short workshop is aimed at the ISTP, GGS and Cluster communities which
are faced with large amounts of data from a number of missions, instruments
and sources, which need to be put together for common scientific analysis.
The workshop will be useful to both scientists who are the main target user
group for PAPCO and software developers who would have the task of writing a
module for PAPCO or who have an interest in expanding PAPCO core
functionality.
The workshop is open to anyone. There is a small registration fee ($20), just
to pay for refreshments during the workshop. The idea is to keep things
simple and useful. We would
like to keep the total numbers down to a maximum of 30.
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What is PAPCO?
In the current era of global geoscience a single simple system is needed
which has the following features:
- Display of Data from many different sources onto a common time axis
- Some common functionality:
- Zooming
- Reading data of plots - hair cursor
- Save/Load of plot products
- Stepping in time
- Over-plot possibility
- Simple text annotation - text utility module
- Over-plotting event time markers - events utility module
- Easy user interface
- Extendibility to any data set - user written modules
- Extendibility to user written functionality - slices
- No prescribed data formats or data base
- No prescribed plot formats - only suggestions for a "common look"
- Command line mode / batch mode for routine processing
PAPCO has been developed with these goals in mind, based on IDL. PAPCO modules
for the following datasets (or sub-datasets thereof) have been written:
- CRRES: MEB, MEA, LEPA, MICS, MAG
- LANL: Geostationary energetic particles, GPS
- GOES: Environmental monitor data
- POLAR: HYDRA, CEPPAD, EFI, PWI, (TIMAS)
- WIND: SWE
- ISTP KP: SWE, IMP8
- OMNI database
PAPCO is a growing system with an ever widening user base. There is a good
possibility that PAPCO might be adopted by NASA/GSFC as a supported ISTP
analysis tool. PAPCO was presented at these two workshops:
ISTP Science
Workshop -- November 3-6, 1997
2nd Annual Hughes STX Science Data Centers
Symposium -- November 17-18, 1997
More information on PAPCO is available on the PAPCO
home page which includes a full User's Guide.
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Purpose of workshop
This workshop aims at making the PAPCO system available to a wider community
and to demonstrate its capabilities.
Further we would like to show how simple it can be to write your own module
for the system - and to "learn by doing".
The workshop will consist of three sessions:
- Introduction to PAPCO, it's installation and use.
- How to write your own module, interface your own data.
- A "PAPCOnitians" session on problems and desirable changes to PAPCO
core.
Session 1. will be a demonstration of the system and an introduction to the
workings of PAPCO and the PAPCO philosophy.
Session 2. will be a practical hands-on session on our workstations. The idea
here is that you can bring your own data along (or get a sample file via ftp),
and then will be shown how to write a module for PAPCO. We would hope to end
the workshop with many new modules for PAPCO!
Session 3. is for those with "inside" knowledge of PAPCO to discuss
improvements, problems, bugs, desirable additions etc to the main PAPCO core
system.
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Workshop Timetable
Tuesday, January 13th
09:00 -- 12:00 Session 1
- 09:00 - 09:30 Welcome and Workshop Organization
- 09:30 - 10:00 Introduction to PAPCO, PAPCO philosophy - Reiner Friedel
- 10:00 - 10:15 Coffee break
- 10:15 - 12:00 Demonstration of PAPCO, PAPCO modules
- PAPCO core, plot_type and standard modules- Reiner Friedel
- HYDRA module - Jeremy Faden
- PWI module - Julie Dowell
- TIMAS module - Scott Claflin
- TIDE module - Peggy Sloan
- The CRRES modules - Chris Mouikis
- The Los Alamos Geostationary Satellites module - Reiner Friedel
- CEPPAD and CAMMICE module - Reiner Friedel
- Any others?
12:00 -- 14:00 lunch
14:00 -- 18:00 Session 2
- 14:00 - 14:30 Introduction to NIS-2 computing setup. Assignment of
workstations and splitup into two groups - Moon Room and NIS-2 computer
room. First log-on and user-installation of PAPCO.
- 14:30 - 15:00 Getting to know PAPCO, how to configure it, use it.
- 15:00 - 16:15 Make own new PAPCO module.
- 16:00 - 16:15 Coffee break
- 16:15 - 18:00 Make own new PAPCO module cont..
20:00 -- ??:?? Workshop dinner - New Mexican restaurant, "Gabriels"
(Pay your own)
Wednesday, January 14th
09:00 -- 12:00 Session 2 cont.
- 09:00 - 10:00 Make own new PAPCO module cont.
- 10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break
- 10:30 - 12:00 Make own new PAPCO module cont.
12:00 -- 14:00 lunch
14:00 -- 17:00 Session 3
- 14:00 - 14:30 Discussion: Problems encountered in making new module.
Templates useful? Documentation useful?
- 14:30 - 15:30 Future needs - future plans, future PAPCO core
functionality, PAPCO web access, PAPCO servers
- New GUI for free-flow panel specification - Mike Henderson
- Inclusion of general annotation facility - interface to
free-ware xFig (vector based drawing utility) - Reiner Friedel
- "Scratch Pad" module for creating secondary data products -
Jeremy Faden, Jack Scudder, Reiner Friedel
- Use of PAPCO for making older dataset available
- 15:30 - 15:45 Coffee break
- 15:45 - 17:00 Discussion: Portability, Module maintenance, Rules of the
road for module data, Usefulness of meeting, next meeting?
- Input from instrument PI's
- Module Web sites
- Expanding PAPCO user community
- Is a annual PAPCO workshop needed?
17:00 End of Workshop
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Important dates
December 24, 1997 -- Fourth Announcement.
January 05, 1998 -- Final Announcement. By this date we will need to know if
you intend on making your own module at the workshop, so that we can allocate
the appropriate resources. Depending on numbers there may be more than one
person per workstation!
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Contact Information
For questions concerning the contents of this page contact:
Reiner Friedel,
friedel@lanl.gov
By mail:,
Reiner Friedel, NIS-2, Mail Stop D-436, Los Alamos
National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
By fax:
+1 505 665 4414
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Attendees Registered
- Richard Belian, LANL (GEO, Cammice, Ceppad, Cluster)
rdbelian@lanl.gov
- Sebastien Bourdarie, ONERA-CERT (Salammbo codes)
Sebastien.Bourdarie@onecert.fr
- Mitchell Brittnacher, University of Washington (POLAR UVI)
britt@geophys.washington.edu
- Martin Carter, RAL (CLUSTER/POLAR)
carter@rl.ac.uk
- Mark Chutter, University of New Hampshire (POLAR)
mark.chutter@unh.edu
- Scott Claflin, Lockheed Martin (POLAR TIMAS)
claflin@teams.space.lockheed.com
- Paul Craven, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center (Polar/TIDE)
paul.craven@msfc.masa.gov
- Julie Dowell, University of Iowa (POLAR PWI)
jhd@space.physics.uiowa.edu
- Donna Dempsey, Southwest Research Institute (POLAR TIDE and TIMAS)
ddempsey@owlnet.rice.edu
- Jeremy Faden, University of Iowa Physics Dept (POLAR Hydra)
jbf@hydra.physics.uiowa.edu
- Joseph Fennell, Aerospace Corp (CAMMICE, CEPPAD, RAPID)
joseph.fennell@aero.org
- Reiner Friedel, LANL (POLAR HYDRA, CEPPAD, CAMMICE)
friedel@nis.lanl.gov
- Janet Green, UCLA (POLAR CEPPAD)
jgreen@igpp.ucla.edu
- Michael Henderson, LANL (POLAR, GEO)
mghenderson@lanl.gov
- Syau-Yun Hsieh, Hughes STX Corp. (ISTP)
xrswh@istp1.gsfc.nasa.gov
- Kenny Hunt, University of Iowa (POLAR (VIS), GEOTAIL (CPI))
hunt@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu
- Jorg-Micha Jahn, LANL, (POLAR CEPPAD/SEPS & CAMMICE, LANL-GEO)
jmj@lanl.gov
- Andreas Keiling, University of Minnesota, (POLAR)
akeiling@ham.space.umn.edu
- Axel Korth, MPAe, (Polar, CRRES, equ_S)
korth@sprotte.mpae.gwdg.de
- Urs Mall, MPAe, POLAR CAMMICE, CLUSTER RAPID, Galileo
mall@linax1.mpae.gwdg.de
- Paul Martin, Geospace Physics Lab - Florida Tech (MEASURE)
pmartin@pss.fit.edu
- Christopher Mouikis, MPAe, (CRRES, POLAR, EQUATOR-s)
mouikis@ciscos.mpae.gwdg.de
- Terry Onsager, NOAA Space Environment Center, GOES, Hydra
tonsager@sec.noaa.gov
- W.K. (Bill) Peterson, Lockheed - Martin (POLAR/TIMAS)
pete@space.lockheed.com
- Jolene Pickett, University of Iowa (POLAR PWI, CLUSTER)
pickett@uiowa.edu
- Geoff Reeves, LANL (CCR)
reeves@lanl.gov
- Doug Rowland, University of Minnesota (CRRES EFI)
rowland@ham.space.umn.edu
- Peggy Sloan, CSC/MSFC (POLAR TIDE, PSI)
peggy.sloan@msfc.nasa.gov
- James Sullivan, Boston University, (Polar)
sullivan@bu.edu
- Michelle Thomsen, LANL (Geosynchronous MPA)
mthomsen@lanl.gov
- Xuandzung Tran, AEROSPACE CORPORATION (POLAR CEPPAD)
xuandzung.tran@aero.org
- Karlheinz Trattner, Lockheed Martin (Polar TIMAS)
trattner@aspen.spasci.com
- Niescja Turner, LASP (POLAR)
turner@daria.colorado.edu
- Xiaowen Zhou, IGPP/UCLA (POLAR MFE)
xwzhou@igpp.ucla.edu
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List of all Workshop announcements
- First Announcement
- Second Announcement
- Third Announcement
- Fourth Announcement
- Fifth Announcement
- Final Announcement
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Detailed map of Lab Technical Area 3
This maps shows the location of the Badge office. Meet at Badge office at 8:45
am on the morning of January 13th.
The meeting is held in the Moon Room, Building SM40. The entrance to the
building is marked on the map. The Moon Room is signposted from the entrance.
The Lab Canteen for lunch ist at the Otowi Building, entrance as shown on the
map.
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Last modified: 24 December 1997