MATISSE the ASDC tool to access and visualize Solar System exploration data

At the present time planetary exploration data are generally stored in "old style" archives, i.e., common ftp repositories where the user needs to manually search the data by browsing into the directories. However, because of the increasing size of archives, this method is becoming very time consuming, subtracting time to the scientific part of the work. Therefore the ASI Science Data Center Solar System Exploration (ASDC-SSE) group started to implement a tool software to access and visualize data of the planetary exploration mission, thus reducing the time spent looking for the data and, finally, allowing datafusion. The tool, named MATISSE (Multi-instrument Advanced Tool for the Instruments for the Solar System Exploration), during its first year of development has been mainly devoted to data from the ESA Rosetta mission but recently, thanks to its modular structure, it has been expanded to include NASA Dawn data (VIR instrument).