Speaker
Dr
Michel Kruglanski
(BIRA-IASB)
Description
Activity: GSTP
Contractor(s): BIRA (B), Rhea System(B)
Technical Officer: Hugh Evans
Summary:
Since 1996, BIRA has been developing the ESA SPace ENVironment Information System (SPENVIS), a World Wide Web based interface to a comprehensive set of models of the space environment. SPENVIS has been operational for almost ten years now and has an international user community of about 2000 registered users who use the system for various purposes, e.g. mission analysis and planning, educational support, and running models for scientific applications. The system includes extensive background information on the space environment and the environment models, which is consulted very frequently.
The development of SPENVIS was continued under a follow-up contract in order to:
- implement new models and methods;
- take advantage of new software technologies to make the system more responsive and maintainable;
- maintain the system at BIRA and its mirror sites at ESTEC;continue the promotion of SPENVIS, including development and support of “stand-alone” versions, and follow-up of licensed copies;
- development of an interface protocol for third party tools;
- organization of the user workshops.
