Describe the feature
Downloading and working with large sets of AIA 4k x 4k images can be time-consuming and expensive. I learned of the existence of another set of AIA images that are hosted on the jsoc website but they aren't able to be seen by FIDO, which feels like a choice someone made. Nevertheless, they are here: https://jsoc1.stanford.edu/data/aia/synoptic/
Their description:
“This directory contains FITS files at a 2-minute cadence which have been produced by processing 4Kx4K AIA level 1 images to level 1.5, then reducing them to 1024x1024 2.4 arc-sec pixels by summing each non NaN valued pixel in the 4x4 pixel cell and dividing by the number of non NaN valued pixels. The pixel value units are DN per original 0.6 arc-sec pixel. The files are stored in a year, month, day, hour, and filename directory hierarchy. These images are produced approximately 7 days after T_OBS since they are derived from definitive level 1 data. The image_times and image_times.json provide the time for the most recent (current final) synoptic file.”
The ability to query and download from this dataset is self-evident, as it does basically all of the prep work to look at the images you need, along with being both spatially binned and time integrated. Just a fantastic dataset (unless you're looking at the most fine-scale or dynamic features that are detectable by the instrument.
Proposed solution
Anyways, I've already written a couple of other clients for FIDO now, so I went ahead and implemented a version of a Client that seems to work. I'm sure we'll have to go back and forth but I'm going to set up a pull request draft to get the process going. I also wouldn't be surprised if there are other approaches than my implementation, which might be more consistent with the other Clients.
Describe the feature
Downloading and working with large sets of AIA 4k x 4k images can be time-consuming and expensive. I learned of the existence of another set of AIA images that are hosted on the jsoc website but they aren't able to be seen by FIDO, which feels like a choice someone made. Nevertheless, they are here: https://jsoc1.stanford.edu/data/aia/synoptic/
Their description:
The ability to query and download from this dataset is self-evident, as it does basically all of the prep work to look at the images you need, along with being both spatially binned and time integrated. Just a fantastic dataset (unless you're looking at the most fine-scale or dynamic features that are detectable by the instrument.
Proposed solution
Anyways, I've already written a couple of other clients for FIDO now, so I went ahead and implemented a version of a Client that seems to work. I'm sure we'll have to go back and forth but I'm going to set up a pull request draft to get the process going. I also wouldn't be surprised if there are other approaches than my implementation, which might be more consistent with the other Clients.