VESPA / Virtual Observatory Tools

General purpose tools for VO applications & VESPA

3Dview	3D viewer for planetary objects, spacecraft trajectories and data developed by GFI/Toulouse and CDPP/IRAP/Toulouse (initiated under CNES contract)
Aladin	Image plotting tool, developed by CDS/Strasbourg
CASSIS	Spectral data analysis tool, developed at IRAP/Toulouse
DaCHS	Framework used to distributed TAP services, developed at Heidelberg University
MATISSE	3D viewer for planetary objects, initiated under contract from ASI (Italian Space Agency)
TOPCAT	Tabular data analysis tool, developed at Bristol University
VOSpec	Spectral data analysis tool, developed at ESAC/Madrid

Other relevant VO tools

SPLAT-VO	Spectral Analysis Tool
SAOImage DS9	Astronomical image and data visualization application, compliant with VO standards
VOplot	Java viewer for vectors or histograms
Specview	Java viewer for spectra with reference data
Euro3D client	VO tool dealing with datasets in the Euro3D FITS format

Further information

VESPA wiki

JRA-Task 2. Tools & Interface

Context

• VESPA description
• Available on day 1
• Glossary
• Participants
• VESPA: General presentation of activity
• Links and external services

Infrastructure

• Standards
• Tools
• Developments
• Activity
• AOs and workshops

Data access / Content

• VESPA query interface
• Science themes
• Data services
• Tutorials, use cases
• Conference presentations

Credits

VESPA has first been designed in the frame of Europlanet-RI JRA4 work package (IDIS activity).
The Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastructure project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 654208.
Additional funding was provided in France by the Association Spécifique Observatoire Virtuel and Programme National de Planétologie / INSU.

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