Repository details

NASA/IPAC InfraRed Science Archive

Name of repository
NASA/IPAC InfraRed Science Archive
Additional name(s)
  • IRSA
Repository URL
https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/frontpage/
Subject(s)
Description
IRSA is chartered to curate the calibrated science products from NASAs infrared and sub-millimeter missions, including five major large-area/all-sky surveys. IRSA exploits a re-useable architecture to deploy cost-effective archives for customers, including: the Spitzer Space Telescope; the 2MASS and IRAS all-sky surveys; and multi-mission datasets such as COSMOS, WISE and Planck mission
Contact(s)
Keyword(s)
Repository size
all-sky surveys in 20 bands; 88 billion rows of catalog data; 100 million images; and over 100,000 spectra.
Repository type(s)
  • institutional
  • disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/charter.html
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • dataProvider
  • serviceProvider

Institutions (4)

Institution
California Institute of Technology
Additional name(s)
  • CALTECH
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1986
Institution
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, Science and Data Center for Infrared Astronomy
Additional name(s)
  • IPAC
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1986
Institution
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Additional name(s)
  • JPL
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1986
Institution
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Additional name(s)
  • NASA
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1986

Policies (1)

Policy Name
NASA web privacy Policy and Important Notices

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Data access (1)

Type of access to data
open

Data licenses (2)

DataLicense
Copyrights
DataLicense
Public Domain

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
  • registration

Data upload license (1)

Data upload license name
How to Contribute Data
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • none
Name of the repository software
  • unknown
Data citation guideline
https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/ack.html
Enhanced Publication
unknown
Quality management
yes

Application programming interfaces (1)

Type
other
Url
https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/voapi.html

Remarks

Remarks
NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive is covered by Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index. IRSA is part of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC)
Entry date
2012-10-02
Last update
2024-09-27
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re3data.org: NASA/IPAC InfraRed Science Archive; editing status 2024-09-27; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. http://doi.org/10.17616/R3ZW26 last accessed: 2025-04-22