The Solar System Information System - Design and Application

Abstract

The Solar System Information System (SOLIS), is a research tool being developed for use by scientists in order to help them to determine the geographical extent, temporal nature, and quality of planetary data, and also for the testing of simple scientific hypotheses against a set of knowledge about a planet. We present an overview of our design to date, describing some important aspects concerning the storage of information about images, and the compact and efficient access to planetary cartographic raster data. We also describe a bibliographic facility. Finally we present two example applications of our system