Patrick A. CHAIZY
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, DIDCOT, Oxfordshire,
OX11 0QX, Great Britain
44-1235-445437
pac@jsoc1.bnsc.rl.ac.uk

Jean-Michel BOSQUED
Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements, CESR/CNRS, 9 Avenue
du Colonel Roche, B.P. 4346, 31028 Toulouse Cedex, France
33-5-61-55-66-73
Jean-Michel.Bosqued@cesr.cnes.fr

Nicolas LORMANT
Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements, CESR/CNRS, 9 Avenue
du Colonel Roche, B.P. 4346, 31028 Toulouse Cedex, France
33-5-61-55-85-72
Nicolas.Lormant@cesr.cnes.fr

Trevor R. SANDERSON
Space Science Department of ESA, ESTEC, Postbus 299, 2200 AG
Noordwijk, The Netherlands
31-71-5653577
tsanders@estcs1.estec.esa.nl

Louis J. LANZEROTTI
MH1E-439, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, 600
Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974, USA
1-908-582-2279
ljl@research.bell-labs.com

Jean-Louis BOUGERET
DESPA, Observatoire de Paris Meudon, 92195 Meudon Cedex,
France
33-1-45-07-77-04
bougeret@obspm.fr

Robert P. LIN
University of California at Berkeley, Space Science
Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
1-510-642-1149
boblin@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu

Since the 1980s, the collaborative efforts by the Space Agencies of USA, Europe and Japan, have lead to the standardisation of the key parameters (KP) from various instruments onboard various spacecraft. Researchers can now quickly visualise and understand the data without the need of a deep understanding of how the instrument functions. Events can easily be identified and significant analysis can be performed using the KP. As an example of the above, a comparison of solar events, detected by both Wind and Geotail, will be presented. Although the spacecraft are close, about 1e6 km (~ 45 min at the SW speed of 400 km/s), differences can be seen. These will be reported and discussed.