# SPICE Round Table Discussion **URL:** \ **Category:** PDW 2019\ **Created:** [June 18, 2019, 8:29pm UTC](https://openplanetary.discourse.group/t/spice-round-table-discussion/125 "2019-06-18T20:29:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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Started with 3 short talks (links are coming). What is NAIF SPICE? [https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/toolkit.html](https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/toolkit.html) Comments: - Audience: Interesting to see NAIF begin to use formats like DSK - NAIF: Think of DSK as the “P” in SPICE (planet). So it allows you to more accurately intersect the surface. There is no plan to add “GIS” type functionality. - NAIF: DSK are interesting since they can support multi-resolution and irregular bodies - Audience: Do DSK also cover raster DEMs? - NAIF: We are adding raster-based DEM support - Audience: To help support Cube Sats, various SPICE templates would be interesting for NAIF to support - Audience: Need to promote across other facilities that are creating their own “SPICE” methods. Pushing from top-down to these facilities are tough. - Audience: Kernel versioning is still tough - Audience: Error methods would be good, not sure which kernels are being used when - Audience: JPL Horizons … - NAIF: We are looking for comments - Audience: With SPICE 2.0, updates to SpiceyPy could be helped by being SWIG wrapped - NAIF: Good questions, - Audience: Are you developing on GitHub so the community can follow - NAIF: there is a good chance, when first prototype is ready that could happen. Are there some examples you can provide? - Audience: It would be good to see how the framework is coming along. Good see the API early