PaPCo is IDL software for data visualization and analysis. It is modular, PaPCo modules built by various institutions and individuals plug into PaPCo core to provide data products. These modules provide graphic panels that are stacked on a time axis. About 60 modules exist, and 30 are supported as “core modules” that come with PaPCo. There are modules from 15+ spacecraft, including CRRES, Polar, Cassini and Cluster. Data from CDAWeb is plottable as well. The software is open-source, making it very flexible and well-suited for science use.

PaPCo is widely used by the ISTP-POLAR community as the vehicle for high resolution common data analysis.  Recent efforts focus on making PaPCo useful for Cluster analysis.

The latest official release of PAPCO is Version 12.0 (beta). To obtain this or other versions of PAPCO, go to
the downloads page.

PaPCo is open source software maintained by Jeremy Faden (doing business as Cottage Systems) and Reiner Friedel, Los Alamos National Labs

The Cluster CAA Module brings in data from the Cluster Active Archive.

• PAPCO Rules of the Road
  Some guidelines for PAPCO users.
• List of current PAPCO modules
  List of available modules and their Web Sites.
• List of Institutions running PAPCO.
  Sites where PAPCO is installed.
• PAPCO Examples
  Sample PAPCO output plots (gifs) demonstrating the current module outputs.
• PAPCO Google Group
  PaPCo google discussion group for the PAPCO community
• PAPCO Users Guide
  A fully linked WEB version of the PAPCO Users Guide for PAPCO V.9.0.
• PAPCO project on sourceForge.net
  SourceForge.net is a public system for building and supporting open-source software projects.
• PAPCO available by CVS on sourceForge.net
  CVS allows easy patching of software.
• Bugs database on sourceForge.net
  Bugs can be reported and tracked on SourceForge.
• Los Alamos PAPCO Modules
  Download site for PAPCO Modules maintained at LANL