Project URL:  http://www-mpl.sri.com/NVAO/docs/flyer.html

Project is in year:  N/A 

Highlights:
  Progress has been made during the last year on several fronts including the development of analysis tools for automatic emission line detection, measurement, intensity calibration, and interpretation in terms of physical parameters of the atmospheric layer producing the emission. The breadth of the data stored by the developing NVAO has also been increased through the acquisition of archival spectra from three other instruments in addition to our pre-existing store of Keck telescopes instrument spectra.

Revelance to NASA:
  The developing National Virtual Aeronomical Observatory (NVAO) addresses major goals of the Applied Information Systems Research program element. First, the NVAO will be a component of the overall National Virtual Observatory. Second, the scientific focus of the NVAO is the response of the Earths atmosphere to external energy sources, and thus the NVAO would contribute directly to the Sun-Earth Connection science theme and its Living with a Star initiative. Finally, the NVAO represents a collaboration between atmospheric scientists, astronomers, and computer scientists.

Application to NASA AMission and Programs:
  Planetary atmosphere science, astronomy of emission-line objects.

Upcoming Plans:
  Our immediate future plans include the adaptation of an automated pipeline for calibration and normalization of raw spectra from one particular instrument, for general use among all instruments we posses spectra from. Our future plans also include the integration of developed analysis tools, the calibration and normalization utilities, and our existing database of spectral attributes and its web interface into a fully function virtual observatory.