Project Definition

Areas where effort needed to be applied were determined through an examination of current and historical data. A group was formed to evaluate MkIII data and to further improve the MkIII data reduction and quality assurance. The goals were to:

1. establish a quality assurance program to examine raw and reduced data,
2. implement a new calibration technique, free of systematic errors,
3. establish a procedure to calibrate raw and reduced data, and produce a synoptic data set,
4. make the transport of raw data into and out of archival storage fast and reliable, and store data in a computer library accessible to the Scientific Community, and
5. determine operational changes which would improve data quality and coverage.