Tools & Software
These projects center on software packages, tools, and portals that deal with VO-compliant services and data formats. They can include web server components for VO-compliant data services; parsers, editors and viewers of VOTable, VOResource, and other formats; problem-solving environments; and portals to remote compute-intensive services.
| Title | Contact | Description |
| Aladin | Pierre Fernique | Interactive federated sky atlas |
| Atlasmaker | Roy Williams | Grid software for bulk image resampling |
| Globular Cluster Theoretical Models | Peter Teuben | This prototype allows the user to select a globular cluster simulation and compare it to observed color-magnitude diagrams. |
| Mirage | Tin Kam Ho | Multi-dimensional visualization of data from VOTable source file |
| Montage | Bruce Berriman | Science-grade custom mosaics from a portal |
| Pegasus | Ewa Deelman | Workflow Management on the Grid |
| PHP VO Client Library | Shui Hung Kwok | A collection of PHP classes that implement interfaces to Cone Search, SIAP, SkyNode, SkyPortal, and VORegistry. |
| Python VO Client Library | Shui Hung Kwok | A collection of Python classes that implement interfaces to Cone Search, SIAP, SkyNode, SkyPortal, and VORegistry. |
| Specview | Ivo Busko | Visualization and analysis tool for 1-D astronomical spectrograms. |
| STC Metadata | Arnold Rots | Space-Time Coordinate metadata for the VO |
| TOPCAT | Mark Taylor | Viewer and editor for tabular information |
| VO Services | Tamas Budavari | A growing selection of VO services in production |
| VOPlot | Sonali Kale | Tool for visualizing astronomical data from VOTable sources |
| VOSpec | Pedro Osuna | A Tool to Handle VO-SSAP compliant Spectra |
| VOTFilter | Chenzhou Cui | XML filter for OpenOffice Calc to Read/Write VOTable Files |
| Web Enabled Source Identification with Cross Matching (WESIX) | Simon Krughoff | Upload images to SExtractor and cross-correlate the objects found with selected survey catalogs. |
The NVO web site is a community-maintained collection with content control by the NVO Executive Committee. Content is judged by the extent to which it: (a) reflects an aspect of the Virtual Observatory, such as astronomy with federated data, (b) uses VO standards or software, or (c) exemplifies grid-based astronomical computing. If you would like a description of your project, data, or software included here, please write to web at us-vo.org with a short description of your work.