Software Library

CDF is a well established standard for space physics data archiving for the heliophysics division at NASA. Recently NASA/PDS has accepted CDF as an archive format for its PDS4 archive. Since then a series of datasets have been processed in CDF, taking advantage of the existing librairies and series of display tools developed for heliophysics studies.

MASER Online Code Repository

The MASER code library is currently hosted on a Gitlab server at PADC:

• MASER/maser4py: Python MASER library
• MASER/maser4idl: IDL MASER library
• MASER/Catalogue/TFCat: Time-Frequency Catalogue (TFCat) Python Module

Some codes are hosted on GitHub:

• SPACE labelling tool: SPectrogram Analysis and Cataloguing Environment’ (SPACE) Labelling Tool.

Highlights

Building CDF files with IDL

This IDL routine has been written by X. Bonnin. It was initially dedicated to STEREO/Waves and WIND/Waves dataset productions, and it has been subsequently used for Cassini and RadioJOVE datasets by B. Cecconi.

IDL routine

• make_cdf.pro

NB @compile_IDLmakecdf must be run before execution (this script is part of the CDF CDAWlib distribution)

A few scripts using this routine

• Processing routine for Cassini/RPWS/HFR/QTN:make_qtn_cdf_v11.pro.
• Processing routine for Cassini/RPWS/HFR/Sounder: make_co_rpws_hfr_snd_l3_cdf.pro.

The corresponding CDF skeletons are provided in the next section.

CDF skeletons for Low Frequency Radio Data

The CDF Skeletons proposed here been used to build the following datasets:

• STEREO/Waves Level 3: SKT [1]
• Cassini/RPWS/HFR/QTN: SKT [2]
• Cassini/RPWS/Sounder: SKT [3]
• RadioJOVE: more details here

Building and loading CDF files with Python

Coming soon