Introduction
The SDO data center is dedicated to the acquisition of SDO/AIA and SDO/HMI data from the Joint Science Operations Center (JSOC) located in Stanford, and the subsequent provision of the data to SIDC scientists .
It was completely reinstalled in 2013 to take into account the new hardware, and the needs of the SIDC scientists and services.
Data Availibility
- AIA quicklook data in all 10 wavelengths as FITS files, PNG images and MP4 videos
- AIA synoptic data in 94Å and 211Å as FITS files
- AIA science data level 2 in 193Å as FITS files
- HMI magnetogram science data level 1.5 as FITS files
- AIA firstlight data level 1 as FITS files
If you are a SIDC scientist, you can access the data directly on yama under /data/SDO/
Data Access
For any other data, we recommend to use the tools provided by JSOC to download the data directly from them.
Access SDO data via IDL and the VSO & SolarSoft library
You can search and download AIA & HMI data from IDL through the VSO with the SolarSoft library, see the tutorial on how to search and download data and examples how to make videos for AIA or HMI.
Access SDO data via Python & SunPy
You can search and download AIA & HMI data via Python by using the SunPy library, see the tutorial on how to search and download data, and the tutorial on how to request cutouts of AIA images from the JSOC
Meetings and Presentations
Some of the information below is now obsolete and is kept for archiving reasons.
- STCE workshop on 'Accessing and Exploitation of SDO data at STCE', held on May 23, 2011
- Soteria Capacity Building Workshop, held on February 15, 2011
- 3rd SDO pipeline meeting held on September 17, 2010 at ROB
- COSPAR 2010 presentation of David Boyes
- Distributing and mining SDO data in Europe, talk at COSPAR 2010 by S. Parenti and V. Delouille. (.pptx)
- 1st SDO pipeline meeting held on June 9, 2009 at ROB
- BNC09 presentation of David Boyes
- TeleScience meeting Notes
Useful links
- The LMSAL Guide to SDO Data Analysis
- The SDO operations calendar
- The description of the keywords used in the FITS files
- The offical SDO webpage at NASA
- The official AIA instrument webpage at LMSAL
- The official HMI instrument webpage at Stanford
- The official EVE instrument webpage at LASP
- The webpage of SIDC where the Belgian SDO data center resides
- The webpage of the German SDO data center
- The webpage of the English SDO data center
- The webpage of the French SDO data center
- The webpage of jHelioviewer, a great software to visualize and study the Sun