wiki:ObserverLocation

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3. Observer Location

No Search Parameters have been defined to describe observer location. Two classes of description are appropriate, one for ground-based observations and one for space-based data, particularly in situ measurements. For Earth observatories, a straightforward geographic latitude / longitude / altitude description should suffice, but it is not clear how useful this would be as a discriminator for data searches. For space platforms, where the description of location for in situ data is especially important, we defer to the model (to be) adopted by the VSPO. It should be noted, though, that as stereoscopic imaging of the Sun from space observatories becomes more important, search parameters associated with observer location with respect to solar coordinate frames may have to be introduced.