Transcript NASA Workshop ESTO AIST CEOS WGISS 13Sep06

Science Mission
Directorate
Earth Science Technology
Program Overview
Presentation at the CEOS Working Group on Info Systems & Services
Steve Smith
Earth Science Technology Program
September 13, 2006
Topics
Overview Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO)
Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST)
• History of AIST NASA Research Announcement (NRA)
solicitations
• Most recent AIST NRA: Sensor Web
What Seems to Work
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Implementation - Program Elements
Observational Technologies:
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Advanced Technology Initiatives (ATI) - provides for concept studies and
development of component and subsystem technologies (Advanced Component
Technology (ACT) Program) for instruments and platforms
•
Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) - provides new instrument and
measurement techniques, including lab development and airborne validation
Information Systems Technologies:
•
Advanced Information Systems Technologies (AIST) - provides innovative
on-orbit and ground capabilities for the communication, processing, and
management of remotely sensed data and the efficient generation of data
products and knowledge
•
Computational Technologies (CT) - provides techniques and systems that
enable high performance throughput, archiving, data manipulation, and
visualization of very large, highly distributed remotely sensed data sets consistent
with modeling needs
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Overall Approach to Technology Development
A Flexible, Science-driven Technology Strategy
• Open, peer-reviewed competitive solicitations enable selection of
best-of-class technology investments
• Active management of technology projects: a cost-effective
approach to technology development and validation
• Ongoing communication with the technology customer community
• This approach has resulted in:
• a portfolio of emerging technologies that will enhance and/or
enable future science measurements
• a growing number of infusion successes: technologies are
infused into a mission by competitive selection of science PIs or
mission managers, not the Technology Program
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Results to Date for all of ESTO
A diverse research community
• Principal Investigators from almost 100 different organizations
• Participants located in 27 states
Regularly exceeds performance metrics set by NASA
• Over 70% of all activities advanced at least 1 Technology Readiness Level
(TRL)
• At least 1-2 new measurements enabled each year
Inverts the traditional 80/20 rule-of-thumb for infusion success
• 30% already infused into missions/campaigns/ESSP proposals
• Over 50% of additional projects have path identified for infusion
• Technologies selected for infusion by Principal Investigators and
mission managers, not ESTO
Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST)
Solicits component, subsystem or system technologies in the
development range of ~ TRL1 to TRL6
Research topics tied to Earth Science research requirements,
technology gaps
Three year awards: new solicitation every 3 years
To date, four AIST solicitations have been released:
• AIST-99; 30 awards, begun in 2000, completed in 2003
• AIST-02; 21 awards, announced in 2003, nearing completion
• AIST-04; “mini NRA”; 6 awards, emphasized data mining,
wrapping up final reviews
• AIST-05; 28 awards selected in July 2006, just beginning
in September 2006
Examples of AIST Progress
TRL Advancement
• over 75% of all AIST-99 awards advanced at least one TRL level; 20%
advanced more than one TRL level
Training and education of next-generation researchers
AIST-99 awards had student involvement at all levels
• 25 Ph.D. candidates
• 32 MS
• 8 BS
• 1 High School
Infusion into missions, instruments, proposals, flight experiments, data
processing systems, science modeling systems
Broad participation
• Across all types of organizations
• Across regions
Example Infusion Successes
in AIST Projects
• Low Power Transceiver (LPT)
(QRS, NRA-99 & NRA-02)
 Flew successfully on STS-107 –
First Space-based Mobile IP use
 Competitively selected to fly on
AFRL XSS-11 mid-2005
 Will fly on Air Force TacSat II Fall
2006
• EO-1 Onboard Cloud Cover
Detection (QRS & NRA-02)
 Performed level 0, level 1
processing and cloud detection
algorithm on captured image
onboard EO-1
 Provided cloudy pixel count to
ground
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EO-1 Onboard Cloud Cover
Detection Ops Concept
LPT Modular Design for
Reconfigurable
Communications
Example Infusion Successes
in AIST Projects (Cont’)
• Integration of OGC and Grid Technologies
for Earth Science Modeling and
Applications (AIST-02)
 Integrate GRID and OGC technologies
to make GRID-managed data accessible
through NASA HDF-EOS Web GIS
Software Suite (NWGISS) OGC servers
and allow users to focus on science
rather than issues with data receipt,
format, and data manipulation
 Leverages the OGC-compliant NWGISS,
CEOS Grid testbed, Globus and NASA
Information Power Grid (IPG) and DOE’s
Earth System Grid (ESG)
• Flight Ethernet Switch selected for GPM
and JWST (QRS & NRA-02)
 Use commercially standardized 10/100
Mb/sec Ethernet bus technology in place
of military standard 1553 or custom
proprietary bus architectures on all
future spacecraft
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Example Infusion Successes
in AIST Projects (Cont’)
• Earth Science Mark-up Language (ESML)
(QRS)
 An interchange technology that enables data
(both structural and semantic)
interoperability with applications without
enforcing a standard format within the Earth
science community
 Semantic tags can be added to the ESML
files by linking different domain ontologies to
provide a complete machine understandable
data description
 Integrated into the Atmospheric Science
Modeling at University of Alabama Huntsville
and Adam Data Mining System
• Advanced SSR SchEduling Tool (ASSET)
(QRS-SOMO Leverage)
 Reduce the manually intensive activity of
planning Solid State Recorder (SSR) buffer
playbacks for Terra spacecraft special events
and difficult scheduling period
 Result: What was once a 20-hour task now
takes only one hour using ASSET
to plan and document non-nominal satellite
procedures on Terra
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Info Systems Technology Investments (NRA99-05)
JPL (32)
AIST
CT
22
10
GSFC (51)
AIST
CT
43
8
GRC (6)
LaRC (3)
AIST
3
AIST
ATI
5
1
ARC (4)
MSFC (1)
AIST
AIST
AIST: 140
ATI:
2
Comp. Tech.: 28
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Total: 170
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Federal Labs (6)
Info Systems
Air Force Research Lab (ATI - 1)
Lawrence Berkeley NL (CT - 1)
US Naval Research Lab (AIST – 1)
NCAR (AIST - 1; CT - 1)
UCAR (AIST – 1)
Small Corp. (12)
Large Corp. (14)
Draper Labs (AIST - 3)
ITT Industries (AIST - 3)
Lockheed Martin (AIST - 4)
Northrop Grumman (AIST – 1)
SAIC (AIST – 2)
TRW (AIST – 1)
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AER Inc. (AIST - 1)
BBN Technologies (AIST - 1)
GST, Inc. (AIST – 1; CT - 2)
Spectrum Astro (AIST - 1)
L-3 Comm. EER Systems, Inc. (AIST – 1)
Institute for Global Env (AIST – 1)
Institute fo Sci. Research (AIST - 1)
SGT, Inc. (AIST – 1)
QSS / MEDS (AIST – 1)
Picodyne (AIST – 1)
Academia (41)
Cal Institute of Tech (CT - 1)
Carnegie Mellon (AIST - 2)
George Mason U. (AIST - 4)
Ohio U. (AIST – 1)
Howard U. (AIST – 1)
MIT (CT - 1)
Georgia Tech (AIST – 1)
U. of Rhode Island (AIST – 1)
U. of Virginia (AIST – 1)
U. of Alaska (AIST - 2)
U. of California, Los Angeles (CT - 1)
U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(AIST - 1; CT - 1)
U. of Alabama, Huntsville (AIST – 7)
U. of Maryland (CT - 1; AIST-1)
U. of Michigan (CT – 1; AIST – 1)
U. of Oklahoma (AIST - 2)
USC/ISI (AIST - 3)
U. of Arizona (AIST – 1)
U. of Kansas (AIST - 2)
U. of Washington (AIST – 3)
Washington State U. (AIST – 1)
Recent AIST Sensor Web Solicitation Overview
Goals of Proposed Research
• The AIST-05 NRA (in ROSES) solicited component technologies that will
enable the Agency to pursue sensor webs as a way to achieve Earth science
objectives in the future
• Proposal Research Topics
• Smart Sensing - to enable autonomous event detection and
reconfiguration of sensor assets
• Sensor Web Communications - to support dialog control for autonomous
operations
• Enabling Model Interactions in Sensor Webs - to support the creation
and management of new sensor web enabled products
• Objectives
• To develop selected component technologies to enable sensor webs
• To evolve concepts that demonstrate the benefit or sensor webs to
Earth science
• To build a community to enhance sensor web collaboration
• TRL of 2 to 5, with at least one TRL advancement over the duration of the
research
• Annual Sensor Web Workshop participation
• Up to 3 year award (grant or cooperative agreement)
• 28 awards were made
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AIST Sensor Web Solicitation: Awards
Sensor Web award abstracts at esto.nasa.gov
Smart Sensing • 12 projects
Sensor Web Communications • 6 projects
Enabling Model Interactions in Sensor Webs • 10 projects
Steps toward building a community to enhance sensor web collaboration
• Projects just getting started - Sep 2006 - Jan 2007
• Interoperability Day at OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) meeting in
Oct 2006 (session led by AIST PI’s)
• AGU Conference session Dec 2006
• ESTO Workshop on Sensor Webs for Earth Science in 2007 (TBD)
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AIST-05 Award Distribution, by State
WA
MT
OR
ME
ND
VT
MN
ID
NH
SD
WI
WY
WY
UT
IL
KS
RI
NJ
CO
CA
MA
CT
PA
IA
NE
NV
NY
MI
OH
IN
MO
MD
WV
DE
DC
VA
KY
NC
OK
AZ
NM
AR
SC
MS
MST
TX
AK
HI
14
GA
AL
LA
FL
28 awards: Distributed over 16 states and DC
What Seems to Work
Setting Directions
• Clear connection to science needs
• specific areas of emphasis
Soliciting Ideas
• competitive, peer-reviewed proposals
• overlapping of award periods
• funding at requested levels
Guiding Progress
• distributed management
• periodic independent reviews
• automated reporting
• metrics
Encouraging Utilization
• collaborations