NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center

2010 Reuse Contribution Award Recipients (alphabetically): Peter Elespuru, Eric A. Kihn, Dmitry Medvedev, Robert Redmon, Mikhail Zhizhin.

The Space Physics Interactive Data Resource (SPIDR) is a distributed network of synchronous databases and application servers that allow modeling and prediction customers to intelligently access and manage historical space physics data for integration with virtual environment models and real-time space weather forecasts. It is a set of 100% Java platform-independent middleware servers accessed via the World Wide Web, and data updates can be performed either by a local user or by another SPIDR server from the Net. Globally deployed since 1997, sample clients are available on SourceForge and its service has recently expanded to include a REST interface, which allows other applications (such as IDL or Matlab) to access data by constructing a URL with the appropriate fields. SPIDR is now in its fifth major version.

SPIDR home page: http://spidr.ngdc.noaa.gov/spidr/