VirES for Aeolus, a Virtual Workspace for ESA's Atmospheric Dynamics Mission

Abstract

VirES is a Virtual workspace for Earth-observation Scientists, a service provided by the European Space Agency (ESA). VirES has firstly been established for ESA's magnetic field mission Swarm as "VirES for Swarm" and has been extended to ESA's atmospheric dynamics mission Aeolus, which is scheduled for launch in August 2018. The service is developed by the Austrian IT company EOX in strong collaboration with missions' scientists. VirES is a web-based service (https://vires.services) that enables scientists to discover, visualize, select and download data of Earth-observation missions through an easy to operate graphical user interface. "VirES for Aeolus" will provide access to Aeolus L1B, L2A, L2B, L2C products and auxiliary data. The first version 1.0 passed acceptance tests in April 2018 and developments towards Version 1.1 (launch version) are in progress. The service is planned to be accessible for public use as soon as the mission's commissioning phase is completed and first data products are released by ESA.