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        <h3>AMDA DOCS</h3>
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                           <li>Presentations  
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                                    <a href="http://cdpp.cesr.fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=66">
                                         CDPP/AMDA and the Virtual Observatories</a></li>  
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                                     <a href="http://cdpp.cesr.fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=42&Itemid=66">Science with CDPP/AMDA</a></li>
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                          <li>Publications
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                                <li> <a href="http://cdpp.cesr.fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=66"> 
                                  CDPP/AMDA and the Virtual Observatories</a></li> 
                                  <li><a href="http://cdpp.cesr.fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=43&Itemid=66"> 
                                   Science with CDPP/AMDA</a></li>                                    
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                 <h3>AMDA THANKS</h3>
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                               <li> Data Centers
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                                    <li><a title="Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie" href="http://www.irap.omp.eu/">IRAP</a>
                                    <li><a title="Coordinated Data Analysis Web, Goddard" href="http://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/">CDAWeb</a> 
                                    <li><a title="Planetary Data System" href="http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/">PDS</a>
                                    <li><a href="http://omniweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/">OMNIWeb</a>
                                    <li><a title="World Data Center for Magnetism, Kyoto" href="http://swdcwww.kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/">WDC, Kyoto</a> 
                                    <li><a title="MAPS Key Parameter Database, IRAP/OMP, Toulouse" href="http://mapskp.cesr.fr/">MAPSKP</a>
                                    <li><a href="http://themis.ssl.berkeley.edu/index.shtml">THEMIS</a>
                                    <li><a href="http://csds-fr.cnes.fr:8082/cdms/">French Cluster Data Center</a>
                                    <li><a title="Cluster Active Archive" href="http://caa.estec.esa.int/caa/ ">CAA</a>
                                    <li><a title="International Service of Geomagnetic Indices"
                                                     href="http://isgi.cetp.ipsl.fr">IGSI/CETP</a>
                                     <li><a title="Danish Meteorological Institute"
                                                     href="http://www.dmi.dk">DMI</a>
                                    <li><a href="http://www.lesia.obspm.fr/kronos/">LESIA/OBSPM</a>
                                    <li><a title="UK Solar System Data Centre" href="http://www.ukssdc.ac.uk/">UKSSDC</a>
                                    <li><a title="STEREO science center" href="http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/">SSC</a>
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    <h2>AMDA Intro</h2>   
<p>  
The plasma objects studied in space physics consist of gigantic systems characterised by
multiscale dynamics and fast long range couplings between key regions. For
studying such systems, it is necessary to perform integrated multi-point/multi-instrument
analysis in case studies and statistical studies as well. The ISTP program, the
CLUSTER, THEMIS and MMS missions have been defined for facing this requirement.
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<p>Integrated
analysis of multi-point and multi-instrument data means that the researcher has
to: 
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  <li> find interesting cases</li>
  <li> when some cases have been found, find and extract the data of interest</li>
  <li> when the data are collected, treat them (formatting, bad point filtering, 
    resampling, data merging)</li>
  <li> visualise combined (i.e. coming from various sets) data</li>
  <li>perform calculation and apply various
specific tools on the data 
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<p> Depending on the heterogeneity of the data and the dispersion of their sources, 
  the scientists can spend a lot of energy and time just for searching, finding, 
  treating and preparing the data before starting scientific analysis. In order 
  to help the users to faster reach the data analysis and interpretation step, 
  the CDPP is developing a service with the following goals: </p>
<p> The service provides functionalities for </p>
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  <li>performing automated search of events, producing time-tables. This tool scans 
    the content of the data and automatically test mathematical criteria edited 
    by the user</li>
  <li>performing semi-automated search of events, producing time-tables. This 
    tool allows the user to browse the data she/he selected by sequentially producing 
    a figure he has predefined</li>
  <li>performing automated and semi-automated characterisation of events, producing 
    catalogues (time-tables + extracted parameters)</li>
  <li>extracting sub-database from an input time-table</li>
  <li>performing basic data treatment (formatting, bad point filtering, re-sampling, 
    data merging, ) in order to provide to the user data ready to use with her/his 
    favourite software</li>
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<p> These tools can be applied on large amount of data (including 
  multi-mission/multi-instrument datasets) in a transparent way by the users. 
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<p> The data are either physically resident in the AMDA database 
  or remotely accessed from remote sites via web-services (CDAWEB, MAPSKP). </p>
<p>  The service can be reached and used from other sites according 
  to the Virtual Observatory paradigm. </p>
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<p>AMDA is developed on the basis of an existing DD SYSTEM (Andrey Fedorov, IRAP).</p> 
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