Description
This session brings together space weather product and data providers, service consumers, and tool developers to explore common operational challenges and opportunities for collaboration across infrastructure, applications, and systems. As institutions develop and maintain infrastructure for running models, processing data, managing tools, and delivering alerts, significant overlaps exist in deployment, API design, notification systems, and Research-to-Operations & Operations-to-Research (R2O2R) workflows. We aim to identify shared requirements and discuss pathways toward unified approaches - including common gateways for SWE data/product access, standardised model and tool pipeline execution, shared storage and computing resources.
The session comprises two parts.
* The first slot will feature presentations on current operational tools and systems across ESA's Space Weather ecosystem, including the Space Weather Service Network (SWESNET), Network of Models (NoM), SPace ENVironment Information System (SPENVIS), Virtual Space Weather Modelling Centre (VSWMC), Radiation Belt Forecast And Nowcast (RB-FAN), and the emerging Space Weather Payload Data Centre (SWE PDC).
* The second slot will showcase demonstrations of new technologies and approaches that could simplify deployment, improve interoperability, and strengthen the European R2O2R framework - ultimately enabling more timely, reliable, and user-tailored space weather services.
(Convenors: Zafar Iqbal (SPARC), Ralf Keil (Starion for ESA))
