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Conference 7.286::space

Title:Space Exploration
Notice:Shuttle launch schedules, see Note 6
Moderator:PRAGMA::GRIFFIN
Created:Mon Feb 17 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:974
Total number of notes:18843

807.0. "Online/CDROM Databases" by PRAGMA::GRIFFIN (Dave Griffin) Mon Jun 15 1992 20:20

This is a placeholder for space-related information stored on CDROMs (or
other online media)

  o Existance of CDROMS (where/how to order)
  o Internet services/archives
  o DEC-internal services/archives


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807.1Digital online archivesPRAGMA::GRIFFINDave GriffinMon Jun 15 1992 20:2612
A modest archive of space images and documents can be found at:

   pragma::public:[nasa]

The 0hello. file provides a bit of navigation and information.  It is generally
kept up-to-date.

Additions to the archive are announced in this conference (in the appropriate
topic).


- dave
807.2Internet archive: ames.arc.nasa.govPRAGMA::GRIFFINDave GriffinMon Jun 15 1992 20:296
Peter Yee, NASA Ames Research Center, maintains an online archive and two
CDROMs with a rotating stock: Magellan, Viking, and Voyager.

Anonymous ftp to ames.arc.nasa.gov, and then cd to pub/SPACE

The CDROMs are at /pub/SPACE/CDROM and /pub/SPACE/CDROM2
807.3Internet CDROM archive: pioneer.unm.eduPRAGMA::GRIFFINDave GriffinMon Jun 15 1992 20:31113
From: [email protected] (Colby Kraybill)
Newsgroups:
alt.sci.astro.figaro,sci.research,sci.space.shuttle,alt.binaries.pictures.misc
Subject: Image/Data archive unveiling ***
Date: 13 Jun 92 19:52:46 GMT
Organization: Space and Planetary Image Facility

We are happy to announce the free availability of our database of over
150 cd-rom's.  

pioneer.unm.edu is the Space and Planetary Image Facility, located on the
University of New Mexico campus.  It is supported by the Computer and
Information Resource Technology (CIRT) group on this campus, and also by the
Space and Planetary Image Facility (SPIF).
CIRT has provided the machine, diskspace, and cd-rom players.  SPIF has
provided the cd-roms and also the people maintaining the machine.

This project is still in it's infancy, so you will have to bare with us.
Right now you can only FTP into the machine and look around at what happens
to be on the cd-rom drives, and also what software that is held on the machine.
We are working on many various projects to increase the usefullness of the 
machine and it's database.

Pioneer is a DECStation 5000/120 with 1.5 gigabytes of diskspace and three
CD-ROM players.  Budget cuts not withstanding, another 1.5 gigabyts of 
diskspace and a few more CD-ROM players around July.

Here is the listing of the CD-ROM's that can be mounted on the players:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Title						Subtitle		Disks
----------------------------------------------  ----------------------- -------
Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment		Aug/Sep '87		1/1

Airborne Artic Stratospheric Experiment		Jan/Feb '89		1/1

DMSP SSM/I Brightness Temperature Grids         Polar Regions           12

DMSP SSM/I Ice Grids                                                    1

Einstein X-ray Data				Slew Survey		1/1 
						High Resolution Imager	2/2 
						IPC Souces Catalog	3/3 

Geological Remote Sensing Field Experiment				9/9

Gloria Sonar Data				Atlantic Coast		2/2 

Green Bank Sky Maps and Radio Source Catalog    Radio Astronomy         1/1

High Resolution Bathymetry and Selected
Geoscience Data for the Monterey Bay Region				1/1

Hubble Guide Star Catalog                                               2/2

International Halley Watch Sample Disk          Tabular Data            1/1

IRAS star catalog                                                       4/4

MacWorld Software Showcase						1/1

Magellan                                        1-22 & 30-42            34/52

Mars Digital Image Map                          Mosaics                 6/6

National Energy Research Seismic Library				1/1

Nimbus 7 SMMR (disks 1-6 are N Pole radiances,                          1-12 
disks 8-12 are S Pole radiances, and disk #7 is 
NP radiances and seaice concentrations)

PreMagellan Radar and Gravity Data					1/1

Selected Astronomical Catalogs						1/1

SIGCAT Sampler								1/2

SIGCAT Software Showcase						1/1

TOMS Gridded Ozone Data				1978-1991		2/2

Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere					1/1

Viking Optical Data                             Raw Data                8/30

Viking Thermal Data							1/1

Voyager Optical Data							12/12

West Coast Time Series Coastal Zone Color 
Scanner Imagery                                                         1/1


__________________________________________________________________________
| CD-ROM's in the possesion of the Map and Geographic Information Center |
| (MAGIC) located in the Centennial Science and Engineering Library      |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Digital Line Graph Data                                                 4/x

Geology of Nevada                                                       1/1

Orthophoto USDA SCS - USGS NMD Joint Project				1/1

Side Looking Airborne Radar						1/1

SIGCAT Sampler								1/1

Supermap Census Data							1/1

World Atlas								1/1

World Weather Disk							1/1
807.4Earth and Space Science Data on CDROM -- A CatalogPRAGMA::GRIFFINDave GriffinFri Sep 25 1992 14:435
Describes various CDROMs available from NASA (NSSDCA) and other institutions.


pragma::public:[nasa]cdrom.catalog

807.5Space Shuttle Earth Observation ProjectPRAGMA::GRIFFINDave GriffinWed Dec 23 1992 19:5717
A subset of digital images from the SSEOP are now available.  I will add to
this collection as time, bandwidth, and disk space permits.


  pragma::public:[nasa.shuttle.sseop]


All files will be in JPEG* format to maximize disk space use.  JPEG files, at
this level of compression, are "lossy" -- there is some minor degradation of
the images.    Most images (that I've seen so far) are 1024x1024.

An index will be provided as soon as I figure out how to build one.

- dave

[* Please Note: I'm not in the displayer business...]

807.6Digital Space Archives -- WWW Server AvailablePRAGMA::GRIFFINDave GriffinFri Nov 05 1993 08:4521
I have started a World-Wide Web server for the Digital Space archives.  It
provides access to some of the data in the archive on pragma.  This will
grow over time.  It will also have links to other Internet services related
to spaceflight, etc.

The URL for the service is (currently):

    http://pragma.lkg.dec.com/space-archives.html


See the Internet Tools conference for information on Xmosaic and other
access programs.


If you would like to help me build pages for the archive, please send me
some mail.  With my current time budget it will take me many months to do
a "good job" of maintaining and building a good hypertext archive.  I would
gladly accept some help.


- dave
807.7Digital Space Archives -- WWW Server AvailablePRAGMA::GRIFFINDave GriffinMon Nov 08 1993 11:5823
[This information supercedes 807.6]

I have started a World-Wide Web server for the Digital Space archives.  It
provides access to some of the data in the archive on pragma.  This will
grow over time.  It will also have links to other Internet services related
to spaceflight, etc.

The URL for the service is (currently):

    http://www-space.lkg.dec.com/space-archives.html


See the Internet Tools conference for information on Xmosaic and other
access programs.


If you would like to help me build pages for the archive, please send me
some mail.  With my current time budget it will take me many months to do
a "good job" of maintaining and building a good hypertext archive.  I would
gladly accept some help.


- dave
807.8Online service for spacecraft informationVERGA::KLAESQuo vadimus?Mon Nov 08 1993 17:0691
Article: 77006
From: [email protected] (Gary Sutherland)
Newsgroups: alt.sci.planetary,sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Spacecraft lists..etc.
Date: 4 Nov 1993 13:43 EDT
Organization: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
 
I have noticed that many people have been inquiring about lists of 
spacecraft and related information.  NASA now has a free on-line 
service that may suit your needs.  Here are some excerpts from the 
NSSDC Master Catalog and NASA Master Directory pamphlets.
 
                        NSSDC MASTER CATALOG
 
NMC (NSSDC Master Catalog) is a free online information system 
providing information about past, present, and future NASA and 
non-NASA spaceflight missions and about the investigations flown or 
scheduled to fly on those missions.  NMC also provides detailed 
information about those data sets primarily archived at the National 
Space Science Data Center (NSSDC).  In addition, NMC describes 
publications, people, and non-spaceflight data.  
 
NMC discribes approximately 15,000 objects including spacecraft, 
experiments, and data sets.  It is accessible through the NSSDC Online 
Data and Information Service (NODIS) which also provides access to the 
NASA Master Directory (NMD).   NMC compliments the NMD by being more 
comprehensive and detailed relative to spacecraft and their 
experiments, and by providing more information about NSSDC-held data.
 
                        NASA MASTER DIRECTORY
 
The NASA Master Directory (NMD) is a free, on-line multidisciplinary 
database of information about Earth and space science data holdings of 
potential interest to the scientific research community.  The NMD 
contains high level descriptions about these data centers, as well as 
scientific campaigns and projects, sources (spacecraft, platforms), 
and sensors (instruments).
 
The NMD also provides automatic connections, called LINKS, to many of 
the data centers or data system holding the data sets.  These 
connections are available from a simple command which may be activated 
from several places in the directory.
 
                          ACCESS PROCEDURES
 
Using NSI/DECnet:
   Set Host NSSDCA
   Username: NODIS
   Type in your name or guest
   Select option 1 (window) or 2 (text) interface
   Select Multi-Disciplinary Option
   Select (2) Master Catalog
       or (1) Master Directory
 
Using Internet:
   Telnet 128.183.36.23
   Username: NODIS
   Type in your name or guest
   Select option 1 (window) or 2 (text) interface
   Select Multi-Disciplinary Option
   Select (2) Master Catalog
       or (1) Master Directory
 
Via Direct Dial:
   Set modem to 8 bits, no parity, 1 stop bit
   For 300, 1200, or 2400 baud, dial 301-286-9000
   For 9600 baud, dial 301-286-4000 or
    FTS 888-4000 
   Prompt: Enter Number, you enter "NSSDCA"
   Prompt: Call Complete, you enter <CR>
   Username: NODIS
   Type in your name or guest
   Select option 1 (window) or 2 (text) interface
   Select Multi-Disciplinary Option
   Select (2) Master Catalog
       or (1) Master Directory
 
                          WHERE TO GET HELP
 
NMC:
  Contact Ms. Pat Ross by:
    NSI/DECnet: NCF::PATROSS
    Internet: [email protected]
    Phone: 301-441-4210
 
NMD:
  Contact the Master Directory User Support Office (MDUSO) by:
    NSI/DECnet: NCF::MDUSO
    Internet: [email protected]
    Phone: 301-441-4299