JHelioviewer is visualization software for solar image data based on the JPEG 2000 compression standard. JPEG 2000 offers many useful new features and has the potential to revolutionize the way high-resolution image data are disseminated and analyzed. The JPEG 2000 Interactive Protocol (JPIP) enables serving data in a highly compressed, quality-progressive, region-of-interest-based stream. These features minimize the data volume transmitted while maximizing its usability. This is especially relevant for solar physics since NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has started providing more than a terabyte of image data per day.
Read more: The JHelioviewer paper (published in Computing in Science & Engineering 2009)
Visit also: The Helioviewer web application
JHelioviewer is being developed as open-source software by the ESA JHelioviewer Team. For further information about the project, contact Daniel Müller (Daniel.Mueller [at] esa.int). JHelioviewer is part of the ESA/NASA Helioviewer Project.
