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If the current VSO search interfaces aren't useful because of the way you search for data, please let us know what we can do to improve our site.

Please Note -- All data provided is voluntary. If would prefer not to answer some questions, there is no need to. We appreciate any and all feedback you are willing to give us.

How often do you search for new solar data?

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How many different data sources do you search on a regular basis?

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How would you describe your interest in VSO?

I'm a professional solar physicist
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I'm a student performing research
I'm interested in the data topology for a similar project
I just like the pictures

Do you have a specific field of interest within solar physics?

Please classify the following types of data in how important you believe it is to be able to use them to identify data sets of interest:

Uses may include searching, filtering, sorting, drilling down or other such operations as they are implemented in the future

Useless: You see no reason in ever needing to use this data type
Unknown: You don't know, or don't care about uses for this data type
Maybe: You can't think of immediate use, but have a vague feeling that there might be
Slight: You can see some occassional uses for this data type
Moderate: You can think of reasons to use this data type on a regular basis
Very: You would have a hard time describing data sets without this data type

Data Type	Example	Useless	Unknown	Maybe	Slight	Moderate	Very
Observation Time	between 2004-01-01 and 2004-01-02; includes 2004-01-01 14:00
Observation Duration	one hour or less; more than 6 hours
Time Series Information	cadence greater than than 60 seconds
Observation Type	Intensity or Line Strength; in situ; Spectral Irradiance
Detector General Location	terrestrial, spacecraft
		Useless	Unknown	Maybe	Slight	Moderate	Very
Detector Specific Location	SOHO; Big Bear; Argentina
Detector or Instrument Name	EIT; HXS; MOF/60
Detector or Instrument Purpose	observes interplanetary Lyman alpha radiation; collecting emission measures of hot plasma
Detector Age	All detectors commissioned in 2004
Detector Resolution	better than 1 megapixel; 128 channel counter
		Useless	Unknown	Maybe	Slight	Moderate	Very
Observed area	full-disk; corona; [specific sun-location]
General Spectral Band	high-energy; near-visible; radio
Specific Spectral Range	infrared; between 10 and 50 keV; includes 60Hz
Spectral Sampling	narrowband; broadband
Helioseismic Information	[]
		Useless	Unknown	Maybe	Slight	Moderate	Very
Global Acoustic Mode Sampling	[]
Known Events	within one hour of a CME
People	PI or observer is 'Bob Smith'
Spatial Sampling	[]
Data Format	ASCII, FITS, JPEG, graphs, pictures
		Useless	Unknown	Maybe	Slight	Moderate	Very
Data Location	GSFC, SHA, NOAA, ESA
Data size	smaller than 10MB
Level of Processing	only Level0 data
Data Quality	greater than 0.5

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