This page is a living version of the capability development road map (For the Operations Roadmap go here). On the left side for each wave are the things that we have officially said we were going to do in the concept document. In the middle are user facing things things that we want to make sure we do. It is intended in the sense of "don't forget we wanted to do X". On the right hand side are internal project that we want to do, or technical debt we have incurred that we need to pay off.

Red struck through text refers to a descope.


Programatic MilestonesUser Facing CapabilitiesInternal / Technical Debt

Wave 1: 2019 Development / 2020 Deployment

  • VLA Standard Pipeline Calibration.
  • Calibration Ingestion
  • Image Ingestion
  • VLA Restore Calibrated Data
  • ALMA Restore Calibrated Data
  • Initial ALMA Optimized Imaging
  • Ingest and display of Large Project results
    • realfast
  • Initial Archive and Workspace infrastructure.

Wave 2: 2020 Development / 2021 Deployment

  • VLA Standard Pipeline Calibration
  • Catalog Ingestion and Display
  • Initial VLA Imaging Pipeline
  • Improved ALMA Imaging
  • Large Project Support
  • Image Cutouts / Data Selection
  • CARTA Integration
  • Implement more metrics for reporting: See SRAO Metrics Definition
  • Ingest and display of Large Project results 
    • VCS, VLITE
    • ALCHEMI
    • FAUST
  • Weblog improvement requirement definition
    • Add API for VLA weblog
  • More resolution flexibility for ALMA Imaging
  • Resource Authorization
  • Workflow execution as Observer account.
  • Cache System
  • Display of thumbnails
  • Workspace QA system

Wave 3: 2021 Development / 2022 Deployment

  • Time Critical Product Generation
  • Self-calibration for ALMA and VLA Imaging
  • VLA Standard Continuum Imaging
  • VLA Optimized Continuum Imaging
  • Recalibration (needs workspaces)
  • Minting of DOIs
  • ALMA Multi-configuration imaging
  • Weblog improvement.
  • Self-calibration for VLA and ALMA
  • Implement more metrics for reporting: See SRAO Metrics Definition (part of workspaces?)
  • Initial Workspace infrastructure.
  • Workspace QA system

Wave 4: 2022 Development / 2023 Deployment

  • VLA Standard Spectral Line Imaging Pipeline
  • Recalibration
  • Minting of DOIs
  • ALMA Multi-configuration imaging (tentative)
  • Large Project Support
  • Image Cutouts / Data Selection
  • Catalog Ingestion and Display
  • Multi-configuration VLA imaging
  • Multi-configuration ALMA imaging (with ALMA PLWG)
  • Self-calibration improvements
  • Ingest and display of Large Project results 
    • VCS, VLITE
    • ALCHEMI
    • FAUST
    • et al.
  • Display of thumbnails
  • Resource Authorization
  • Workflow execution as Observer account.
  • Product versioning

Wave 5: 2023 Development / 2024 Deployment

  • VLA Multi-configuration Imaging
  • ALMA Multi-configuration imaging (tentative)
  • Weblog Improvement (with ALMA PLWG and Pipeline)

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