Speaker
Description
CDAWeb has served as SPDF's flagship data access tool for decades, providing the heliophysics community with powerful visualization and access to over 3000 datasets. However, modern research demands—including large mission constellations, higher resolution data, and interactive exploration of complex multi-dimensional datasets—require a reimagined approach to data discovery and visualization.
We are developing the next generation of CDAWeb: a modern, scalable data exploration platform that maintains CDAWeb's proven functionality and accessibility while expanding capabilities to meet current and future needs. Built on a modern technology stack and leveraging the Python in Heliophysics ecosystem, this platform will provide enhanced data discovery, advanced plotting capabilities, and improved support for visualizing multi-dimensional data such as 2D slices of plasma distribution functions.
This presentation will discuss the technical challenges driving this modernization effort, visualization trade studies informing our design decisions, the current architecture and tooling infrastructure, and demonstrate early prototype functionality of the initial frontend and backend implementations. As an early-stage prototype, we welcome community feedback to help shape the future of this critical resource for heliophysics research.