Transcript NASA Headquarters Perspective on Space

NASA Headquarters Perspective on SpaceBased Global Wind Measurements
Presented to: Working Group on Space-Based Lidar Winds
February 2, 2010
George J. Komar
Associate Director/Program Manager
Earth Science Technology Office
Topics
– Global Winds Measurements in the Decadal Survey
• Currently a Tier 3 mission
• Subject to overall budget pressures in Earth Science
• Substantial risk-reducing investment in progress
– Technology Investments
• Early investments in wind measurements and lasers
• Current investments in the Decadal Survey era
– Next Steps
• A wide range of new investment opportunities
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FY11 ESD Budget
2010
FY 11
FY 10
1405
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
1801.7
1944.4
2089.4
2216.5
2282.1
1500
1550
1600
1650
• $1.8 billion over 4-years (FY 2011-14)
• Re-flies the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, which is critical to our understanding of the Earth’s carbon cycle and
its effect on climate change
• Accelerates the development of new satellites to enhance observations of the climate and other Earth systems
• Expands and accelerates Venture-class competitive PI-led missions
• Enhances climate change modeling capabilities to enhance forecasts of regional and other effects
• Operates 15 Earth-observing spacecraft in orbit and launches Glory, NPP, and Aquarius
• Proceeds toward completion and launch of remaining foundational missions: LDCM (6/13) and GPM (7/13).
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NASA Earth Science Decadal Survey Missions
Climate Absolute
Radiance and
Refractivity
Observatory
(CLARREO)
Hyperspectral
Infrared Imager
(HYSPIRI)
Soil Moisture Active
Passive (SMAP)
Precipitation and
All-Weather
Temperature and
Humidity (PATH)
Active Sensing of
CO2 Emissions
(ASCENDS)
Surface Water
and Ocean
Topography
(SWOT)
Ice, Cloud,and
land Elevation
Satellite II
(ICESat-II)
Geostationary
Coastal and Air
Pollution Events
(GEO-CAPE)
Deformation,
Ecosystem
Structure and
Dynamics of
Ice (DESDynI)
Lasers Tier I Radars
LIDAR Surface
Topography
(LIST)
Gravity Recovery
and Climate
Experiment - II
(GRACE - II)
Snow and Cold
Land Processes
(SCLP)
Three-Dimensional
Winds from Space
Lidar (3D-Winds)
Aerosol - Cloud Ecosystems
(ACE)
Global Atmospheric
Composition Mission
(GACM)
Passive
PassiveTier
Microwave
III
Tier IIOptics
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A Strong Record of Technology Investment
for Wind Measurements
Coherent Detection:
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Demonstration of a hardened diode-pumped 2-µm laser (Kavaya/LaRC - IIP04)
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Lab build and demonstration of integrated heterodyne photoreceiver (Amzajerdian/LaRC LRRP)
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Integrated lidar photo receiver and sensor development (Abedin/LaRC - LRRP)
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Development of an advanced optical heterodyne receiver (Mansour/JPL - ATI 99)
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Laser diode characterization and lifetime demonstration (Amzajerdian/LaRC – LRRP)
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Airborne demo of autonomous coherent-detection, pulsed, 2-micron, Doppler wind lidar
system (Kavaya/LaRC-IIP07)
Direct Detection:
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Control and monitoring of laser thermal systems (Butler/GSFC - LRRP),
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Narrow band, single mode, single frequency UV laser and space qualified etalon assembly for
O3 measurement (Gentry/GSFC -IIP04, ACT05)
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Developed a high-power single frequency UV laser transmitter (Austin, Lite Cycles – SBIR
Phase III 06)
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Airborne testing of Optical Autocovariance Wind Lidar transceiver (Grund/Ball Aerospace &
Technologies Corp.-IIP07)
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…and Investments in Lasers
Some Highlights:
Technologies for a
Combined HSRL and
O3 DIAL
(ACE Mission)
- Hostetler, NASA LaRC
CO2 Laser Sounder for
the ASCENDS Mission
- Abshire, NASA GSFC
DAWN: Doppler
Aerosol WiNd Lidar
(3D-Winds Mission)
Efficient Swath
Mapping Laser
Altimetry
(LIST Mission)
- Kavaya, NASA LaRC
- Yu, NASA GSFC
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Current ESTO Investments:
Enabling the Decadal Survey
Instrument Technology Investments
(Instrument Incubator Program Solicitation)
Information Systems Technology Investments with Direct Applicability
(2008 Advanced Information System Technologies Program Solicitation)
Instrument Investments that include planned airborne testing
(2007 Instrument Incubator Program Solicitation)
Information Systems Technology Investments with Secondary Applicability
(2008 Advanced Information System Technologies Program Solicitation)
Component Technology Investments
(2008 Advanced Component Technologies Program Solicitation)
(Note that individual Component and Information Systems Technologies
often apply to more than one mission. )
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New Investments: Enabling 3D-Winds
Airborne Demonstration of an Autonomous
Operation Coherent Doppler Lidar
- Michael Kavaya, LaRC
Hybrid Doppler Wind Lidar (HDWL) Tranceiver
- Cathy Marx, GSFC
A Low, Cost, Lightweight, Optically Fast Corrugated
Mirror Telescope Array for Lidar and Passive ES
- Michael Dobbs, ITT
Moving Objects Database Technology for Weather
Event Analysis and Tracking
- Markus Schneider, University of Florida
Development and Demonstration of an Optical
Autocovariance Direct Detection Wind Lidar
- Christian Grund, Ball Aerospace
GNSS Beamforming RF Processor
- Tom Meehan, JPL
Ultra-Sensitive Near-Infrared Optical Receiver
- Michael Krainak, GSFC
Detector Development for Cloud-Aerosol
Transport Lidar - Matthew McGill, GSFC
Design and Evaluation of Sensor Web Modeling
and Data Assimilation System Architectures
- Mike Seablom, GSFC
Instruments
Components
Information Systems –
Primary Applicability
Information Systems –
Secondary Applicability
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Stimulus-Funded Technology Development
Global Hawk Instruments
Land, Vegetation, & Ice
Sensor (LVIS)
Global Ozone Lidar
Demonstrator (GOLD)
This task will Integrate the LVIS
capability onto the Global Hawk
and provide an automated, reliable
package for high altitude
measurements.
GOLD will enable, for the first
time, Ozone LIDAR measurements
from a high-altitude aircraft that
support global atmospheric
composition and climate change
investigations.
$1.6M
$1.5M
UAVSAR
The Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle –
Synthetic Aperture Radar
(UAVSAR) project will install two
existing UAVSAR pods on a UAV
for the first time. On Global Hawk,
UAVSAR will generate precise
topographic maps and single-pass
polarimetric interferograms of ice
and vegetation.
$4.4M
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Toward New Investments
• Airborne Instrument Technology Transition (AITT) Solicitation:
airborne experiments, in process of selection.
• Earth Venture-1 (EV-1) Solicitation: the first series of Venture
Class proposals, in process of selection.
• Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) Solicitation: will be
published in mid-February 2010.
• Earth Venture-2 (EV-2) Solicitation: will be released in FY2011
• Numerous R&A opportunities for demonstrations and flight
campaigns
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