The electronic Space Weather upper atmosphere (eSWua) project

Abstract

In the framework of the electronic Space Weather upper atmosphere (eSWua) project the web site http://eSWua.ingv.it represents the interactive access to the upper atmosphere database and related services. The eSWua project is based on measurements performed by all the instruments installed by the upper atmosphere physics group of the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy and on all the related studies. The aim is the realization of a hardware-software system to standardize historical and real-time observations for different instruments. This interactive Web site, supported by a well organized database, can be a powerful tool for the scientific and technological community in the field of telecommunications and Space weather. The most common and useful database type for our purposes is the relational one, in which data are organized in tables for petabytes data archiving and the complete flexibility in data retrieving.