1. IVPR Team Meeting 21 Sep 2000 3D Visualization Techniques in Support of Remote Sensing of Space Plasma Ivan A. Galkin UMASS Lowell

2. IVPR Team Meeting 21 Sep 2000 Contents  Introduction  Background: Radio Plasma Imager  Data management scenario  2D solutions: BinBrowser  3D solutions: Viz-a-Viz  Other work

3. IVPR Team Meeting 21 Sep 2000 Introduction Irkutsk BS in Radiophysics, Irkutsk State University, 1983 MS in Electrical Engineering, UMASS Lowell, 1995 Doctorate studies in Computer Science, UMASS Lowell, 1998-…

4. IVPR Team Meeting 21 Sep 2000 Background IMAGE orbit Magnetosphere

5. IVPR Team Meeting 21 Sep 2000 Remote Sensing of Plasma Conditions for RPI signal to return to receiver:  Incidence angle normal to the density gradient  Signal frequency equal to the local plasma cutoff frequency

6. IVPR Team Meeting 21 Sep 2000 RPI Plasmagram: simulation

7. IVPR Team Meeting 21 Sep 2000 RPI Plasmagram: actual data

8. IVPR Team Meeting 21 Sep 2000 Targets of Opportunity 1. Magnetopause 3. Plasmapause, nightside 2. Plasmapause, dayside

9. IVPR Team Meeting 21 Sep 2000 RPI Direction Finding RPI Orthogonal Antenna System Wave Normal as Direction of Arrival, with  -ambiguity

10. IVPR Team Meeting 21 Sep 2000  -ambiguity

11. IVPR Team Meeting 21 Sep 2000 RPI Echomap: actual data

12. IVPR Team Meeting 21 Sep 2000 RPI Measurement is a Cube

13. IVPR Team Meeting 21 Sep 2000 RPI Databin Contents LTD (Time domain) SSD (Spectral domain)

14. IVPR Team Meeting 21 Sep 2000 RPI Databin Contents ( cont. ) SMD (Spectral peaks only) TTD (Time domain, thermal noise)

15. IVPR Team Meeting 21 Sep 2000 Data Management Scenario L0 DSN DHDS L0.5 UDF L1 CDF To general public and NSSDC To Instrument Leads BP WWW Local archive users Catalog queries