| Session Details | |
| Section | PS - Planetary Sciences |
| Session Title | Planetary Science Data Archiving |
| Main Convener | Dr. Jian-Yang Li (Planetary Science Institute, United States) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Ludmilla Kolokolova (University of Maryland, United States) Dr. Daniel Crichton (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States) Dr. Sebastien Besse (European Space Agency, Spain) Dr. Yukio Yamamoto (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan) |
| Session Description | The focus of this session is planetary science data archives, archiving activities, and future plans. We will invite speakers from International Planetary Data Alliance (IPDA), NASA’s Planetary Data System (PDS), ESA’s Planetary Science Archive (PSA), JAXA, China National Space Agency, and Indian Space Research Organisation to discuss the status and plans in their data archiving activities, and invite contributed abstracts related to all aspects of planetary science data archiving activities and concepts. It is of great importance and broad community interest to archive and make available to public the data returned by planetary science exploration missions, as well as related data collected from Earth-based observing facilities. The data archives should provide long-term preservation of a broad variety of data, including, but not limited to, raw and calibrated imaging, spectroscopy, dust, plasma and magnetic field, particle data, etc., as well as the high-level derived data products. The ultimate goal is to enable and facilitate combined scientific analyses using data covering long time-baselines and multiple observations for the new phenomena and scientific objectives emerging in future times. NASA’s PDS and ESA’s PSA are the major contributors of data archiving activity at the present, and the IPDA is the current multi-agency organization to coordinate such archiving activity of all planetary data around the globe. Tremendous progress has also been made by other countries and regions around the world, such as Japan, China, and India in planetary exploration missions and other observing activities. This session will provide a forum for researchers in planetary sciences in the rapidly developing Asian-Pacific region to discuss and understand the standards, approaches, current progress, and future plans and concepts for effective long-term planetary science data preservation. |