Laboratory Science with Space Data Accessing and Using Space-Experiment Data /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Beysens, Daniel (Editor), Carotenuto, Luigi (Editor), van Loon, Jack J.W.A (Editor), Zell, Martin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Physics.; Earth sciences.; Medicine.; Data mining.; Life sciences.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Life Sciences, general.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Earth Sciences, general.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.

For decades experiments conducted on space stations like MIR and the ISS have been gathering data in many fields of research in the natural sciences, medicine and engineering. The European Union-sponsored ULISSE project focused on exploring the wealth of unique experimental data provided by revealin...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Space and Ground-Based Infrastructures
• 2.1 Characteristics of the Space Environment
• 2.2 Space Infrastructure
• 2.3 Non-orbital weightless research platforms
• 2.4 Ground-based facilities and space simulators
• 3 Areas of research
• 3.1 Physical sciences
• 3.2 Life sciences
• 4 ULISSE access to data
• 4.1 Data description
• 4.2 Identification of information: the ULISSE knowledge base
• 4.3 ULISSE: data access services. .