JHelioviewer For Linux

JHelioviewer is a visualization software for solar physics data. 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 us to serve data in highly compressed, quality progressive, region-of-interest based form. These features make it possible to minimize the data volume transmitted while maximizing its usability.

This is especially relevant for solar physics since NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory will soon provide more than a terabyte of image data per day. Providing efficient access to this huge data volume at both high spatial and high time resolution is of paramount importance to support scientific discovery.

- JHelioviewer is a Java Application and requires Java 5 or higher. If Java is not installed on your computer, simply download it here. - After downloading JHelioviewer, you can launch it either by double-clicking on the file icon or from the command line (java -jar JHelioviewer2.jar). The latter gives you more flexibility, e.g. to increase the memory JHelioviewer can use (add -Xmx1500m for up to 1500 MB). - The first time you start JHelioviewer, it will download several platform-dependent libraries, which will take a moment. - Now you are ready to go: Simply use the observation panel to access 14 years worth of SOHO data.