Data management study event detection

Abstract

This report discusses the problems of handling, controlling and displaying data received from Space Scientific Experiments in the Shuttle Era. The initial impetus for generating this report was a desire to eliminate some of the problems and restrictions on the data handling and displays which were experienced during the ALSEP program. As the study progressed it soon became apparent that a critical review aimed at up-grading the ALSEP data management system was too li1nited in scope due to the major advances which have been made in all aspects of data handling during the last ten years. Consequently the scope of the study was widened to embrace all aspects of data management and the applicability of the latest techniques.