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Responsible Thematic Node: Plasmas

Short Name: SOLARSOFT

Brief description: Software for Solar Physics

URL: http://www.lmsal.com/solarsoft/index_old.html

Type: TOOLS for data Analysis or Access

English Language: YES

Restricted access: NO

Longer description:
The SolarSoft system is a set of integrated software libraries, data bases, and system utilities which provide a common programming and data analysis environment for Solar Physics. The SolarSoftWare (SSW) system is built from Yohkoh, SOHO, SDAC and Astronomy libraries and draws upon contributions from many members of those projects. It is primarily an IDL based system, although some instrument teams integrate executables written in other languages. The SSW environment provides a consistent look and feel at widely distributed co-investigator institutions to facilitate data exchange and to stimulate coordinated analysis. Commonalities and overlap in solar data and analysis goals are exploited to permit application of fundamental utilities to the data from many different solar instruments. The use of common libraries, utilities, techniques and interfaces minimizes the learning curve for investigators who are analyzing new solar data sets, correlating results from multiple experiments or performing research away from their home institution.

Non EPN location: LMSAL (Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory)

Contributor: De Sanctis

Other Responsible (name): Freeland S. L.

Other Responsible (email): freeland@sxt1.lmsal.com

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