Reimar Bauer

The Mission Support System Software (MSS) is a client/server application developed in the community to collaboratively create flight plans based on model data. Through conda-forge, the components of MSS can be used on different platforms.

Examining the atmosphere by research aircraft is a costly and highly collaborative effort involving a large community of scientists, their one-of-a-kind measurement instruments and a very limited amount of available flight-hours. The MSS Software (mss.rtfd.io) is used for planning research aircraft missions. Such missions involve the measurement of interesting atmospheric situation by research aircraft. These missions typically involve a wide range of one-of-a-kind instruments designed and operated by different scientific institution, with different requirements and operational conditions. The software project contains several components. Scripts for automated download and process of weather forecast data for the server components. This model forecast data is needed to guide the aircraft to the location of interest. The data is visualized by an extended OGC webmap server capable of visualising the big data generated by complex 3-D atmospheric simulations in a highly configurable manner and delivering the resulting small PNG images over the internet. Another server based on socketIO enables collaborative working from different locations on the same flightpath simultaniously. The flightpath editor is a QT UI that allows to overlay the pictures produced by our server. The flightpath can be changed accordingly vertically and horizontally. We provide also a view based on the simulated data to visualize data similar to an insitu measurement along the flightpath.

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Examining the atmosphere by research aircraft is a costly and highly collaborative effort involving a large community of scientists, their one-of-a-kind measurement instruments and a very limited amount of available flight-hours. The Mission Support System MSS enables the planning of optimal flight paths by visualising the results of model simulations in combination with the chosen flight path and allowing for a simple iterative and collaborative improvement process, enabling the best measurement flights possible.

The MSS Software is used for planning research aircraft missions. Such missions involve the measurement of interesting atmospheric situation by research aircraft. These missions typically involve a wide range of one-of-a-kind instruments designed and operated by different scientific institution, with different requirements and operational conditions. To measure in the scientifically most interesting locations, it is necessary to have model forecasts of relevant quantities such as meteorological parameters, chemical composition or particle information to guide the aircraft to the location of interest. The MSS software consists of two major components. One is formed by an extended OGC webmap server capable of visualising the big data generated by complex 3-D atmospheric simulations in a highly configurable manner and delivering the resulting small PNG images over the internet. The second one is a flight path editor that allows to overlay the figure produced by our server (or other OWs compliant services) with the flight path to identify regions of interest and change the plan accordingly. The split is necessary as the data is typically located in super-computing centers, while the scientist are often based in remote locations with poor internet-connections. Several special features are implemented in addition to this basic functionality, e.g. the ability to provide vertical cross-sections along the flight-path, which are ideal to assess the measurements that, e.g. a lidar would take.

Scientific aircraft research flights have to be planned beforehand. For that it is necessary to have model forecasts of relevant quantities such as meteorological parameters, chemical composition or particle information to guide the aircraft to the location of interest. We develop the MSS Project to make decissions easier where to investigate.

Scientific aircraft research flights have to be planned beforehand. For that it is necessary to have model forecasts of relevant quantities such as meteorological parameters, chemical composition or particle information to guide the aircraft to the location of interest. Typically, many scientific instruments on board those aircrafts used to investigate e.g. the chemical composition of the air in order to get new insights often with the involvement of different science groups.

For discussion of the possibilites of the research flights, the Mission Support System (MSS) was developed. This software helps to review a big amount of metereological and model data by viewing the forecasted parameters of interest along possible regions of a proposed flight path. Data and possible flight paths can be displayed on a hoizontal view (map projection) or on a vertical view (along the proposed flight path). Flight paths can be constructed and modified on these views. Exchange through a waypoint table is also possible.

The talk gives a brief insight into the MSS software development current state.

We are using the OWS interface standard. https://geopython.github.io/OWSLib/ MSS is a client/server application. The QT client interacts with a paste wsgi server. The software is available for all platforms on conda-forge.