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Solarsoft
is a collaborative software development system created at
Lockheed-Martin
to support solar data analysis and
spacecraft
operation activities. It is widely recognized in the
solar physics
community as having revolutionized solar data analysis starting in the early 1990s. Solarsoft is in active development and use by research groups on all seven continents.
Solarsoft is a store-and-forward system that makes use of
rsync
,
csh
and other UNIX tools to distribute the software to a wide variety of platforms. Solarsoft predates
CVS
and most other collaborative development systems; hence, it does not provide direct support for many features that today would be considered necessary, such as
software versioning
. The use of Solarsoft has grown to include calibration data and even complete catalog indices for some instruments, as well as the scientific software.
Most of the software in the Solarsoft tree pertains to either solar data analysis or specific space missions or
observatories
such as
Yohkoh
or
SOHO
. The vast majority is written in
IDL
, the most commonly used analysis platform in the solar physics community, though some
C
,
ana
, and
PDL
modules are also available.
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