Abstract
VirES is a Virtual workspace for Earth-observation Scientists, a service
provided by the European Space Agency (ESA). VirES has firstly been
established for ESA’s magnetic field mission Swarm as “VirES for
Swarm’‘ and has been extended to ESA’s atmospheric dynamics mission
Aeolus, which was launched in August 2018. The service is developed by
the Austrian IT company EOX in strong collaboration with missions’
scientists. VirES is a web-based service (https://aeolus.services) that
enables scientists to discover, visualize, select and download data of
Earth-observation (EO) missions through an easy to operate graphical
user interface. ”VirES for Aeolus” will provide access to Aeolus L1B,
L2A, L2B, L2C products and auxiliary data. The first version 1.0 passed
acceptance tests in April 2018 and developments towards Version 1.2 are
in progress. The service is planned to be accessible for public use as
soon as the mission’s phase E1 is completed and first data products are
released by ESA.