Virtual Observatory in the Geospace Environment Studies

Tatsuki Ogino, Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Japan

There are many kinds of observations and modeling/simulation studies in the geospace research, however, almost of them is just looking at a portion of the whole of geospace environment. Thus it is very important to integrate such many portions for understanding of the geospace environment. The virtual observatory is a very attractive concept to establish a system by integration. In Japan, we are execution a project for common usage of the information and data of geospace environment by using high speed network. In the
project we try to exchange observation/simulation data in real time and share the data for analysis, three dimensional visualization and virtual reality through network. For the purpose we have developed the method how to realize virtual reality through Internet by collaboration with NICT, Ehime, Kyoto and Kyushu Universities.

Keywords: virtual observatory, geospace environment, integration of data