MMS Data Products - Definitions

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Definitions:

Data Level	Brief Description	Nominal Delivery Schedule
Raw	Raw telemetry data as received at the ground receiving station
L0	Binary CCSDS packets (as produced by the corresponding instrument; unpacked metadata
L1A	Extracted telemetry items; no calibrations or corrections applied; B and Vsc to all investigations
L1B	Extracted telemetry data to which instrument-level provisional calibrations have been applied; simple moments, spectral indices
Quicklook	Scientific data products that are generated using simplified science processing algorithms, e.g. with provisional calibrations.
L2A	"Instrument-level" research-grade scientific data product, best calibrations to shorter-term delivery date
L2B	"Instrument-level" research-grade scientific data products, definitive products
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Note: Survey-based Quicklook and Level-1 products are planned to be used for SITL analysis. FPI is planning to produce a SITL-specific product