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Windows On Earth

by cfynanon 21 April 2017in Earth Science and Remote Sensing

Principal Investigator: Dan Barstow
Affiliation: T E R C
Windows on Earth is a suite of software tools to help students, scientists and astronauts explore Earth from space. It provides an augmented reality system to manage Earth observation targets, support on-orbit photography and help scientists and the public explore the wealth of images. The Earth visualization engine creates views of Earth as seen from orbit, with realistic features, colors, topography and day/night transitions. Scientists and astronauts use a comprehensive database of targets to set priorities and support on-orbit target identification.

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Street View Imagery Collect on ISS

by cfynanon 21 April 2017in Earth Science and Remote Sensing

Principal Investigator: Ann Kapusta
Affiliation: ThinkSpace
ThinkSpace Consulting, in collaboration with Google, proposes to collect full 360-degree imagery of the internal area of the ISS. The project will use existing on-orbit resources to create this commercial product, requiring no additional hardware items to be launched.

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Cyclone Intensity Measurements from the International Space Station (CIMISS)

by cfynanon 21 April 2017in Earth Science and Remote Sensing

Principal Investigator: Dr. Paul Joss
Affiliation: Visidyne, Inc.
This project seeks to improve intensity measurements, and subsequently, path predictions of strong tropical cyclones (also known as hurricanes or typhoons) through improved modeling using a measurement technique from the low Earth orbit vantage point of the ISS. Improving intensity measurements requires accurate measurements of the altitude of eyewall clouds (the clouds surrounding the eye of a storm). For tropical cyclones of interest, a camera is mounted on a selected Cupola window and programmed to capture high-resolution exposures of the storm. The resulting sequence of digitally processed images allows Visidyne to develop algorithms necessary to determine the altitude of the eyewall clouds in a storm.

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Commercial Space-borne Hyperspectral Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) Products

by cfynanon 21 April 2017in Earth Science and Remote Sensing

Principal Investigator: Dr. Ruhul Amin
Affiliation: BioOptoSense, LLC
Use remotely sensed hyperspectral optical measurements from HICO to develop early harmful algal bloom detection, quantification, and classification algorithms. This study will focus in the Gulf of Mexico, particularly in the eastern part where toxic algal blooms, specifically dinoflagellate Karenia brevis, regularly occur.

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Architecture to Transfer Remote Sensing Algorithms from Research to Operations

by cfynanon 21 April 2017in Earth Science and Remote Sensing

Principal Investigator: Dr. James Goodman
Affiliation: HySpeed Computing
Use the Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Oceans (HICO) instrument on the ISS to develop an enterprise architecture for image processing that leverages existing investments in Earth observation data acquisition and enables the remote sensing community to more effectively transform research ideas into functional software applications.

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Hyperspectral Mapping of Iron-bearing Minerals

by cfynanon 21 April 2017in Earth Science and Remote Sensing

Principal Investigator: Dr. William H. Farrand
Affiliation: Space Science Institute
Evaluate how well HICO can characterize and map minerals associated with playas. Results could mitigate public-health issues stemming from dust storm impacts, enhance agricultural efforts to counter soil salinity problems, and improve use of playas for vehicular transport.

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CyMISS Grant Proposal for the 2015 Tropical Cyclone Season

by cfynanon 21 April 2017in Earth Science and Remote Sensing

Principal Investigator: Dr. Paul Joss
Affiliation: Visidyne, Inc.
Tropical Cyclone Intensity Measurements from the ISS (CyMISS) experiment is a CASIS payload that will demonstrate the use of the Carnot engine model of tropical cyclones (TCs) to achieve remote measurements of the intensities of the strongest TCs more accurately than existing remote-sensing methods. The key inputs to this model are the altitudes and temperatures of the cloud tops within the TC eyewall. The temperature can be derived using well established infrared imaging techniques, while the cloud altitudes are to be derived using a new method employing pseudo-stereoscopy. Our pseudo-stereoscopic method determines the altitudes of the cloud tops of a TC by precisely tracking the apparent positions of cloud features with respect to the Earth and how those positions change over time as an observer (the ISS in this case) passes over the storm.

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National Lab Project: AMS

by cfynanon 21 April 2017in Earth Science and Remote Sensing

Principal Investigator: Dr. Samuel Ting
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer – 02 (AMS-02) is a state-of-the-art particle physics detector constructed, tested and operated by an international team. The AMS-02 uses the unique environment of space to advance knowledge of the universe and lead to the understanding of the universe’s origin by searching for antimatter, dark matter and measuring cosmic rays.

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Space Tango, Inc

by Dameian Lotton 13 December 2016in Earth Science and Remote Sensing, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Technology Development

Services Provided:

Space Tango designs and builds integrated systems that facilitates microgravity research and manufacturing focused for application on Earth. Our unique offering allows users to focus on their research while Space Tango manages the complexities of traveling to and operating in microgravity. Space Tango provides a wide array of services for ISS customers. Including experiment design (including Exomedicine), mission manifesting*, on-orbit operations and terrestrial logistics.

ISS Hardware:

Space Tango’s TangoLab-1 facility, a fully automated system allowing multiple experiments to run simultaneously and independently, is a general research platform launched on the SpaceX CRS-9 mission and installed on the International Space Station in 2016. This architecture minimizes astronaut interaction reducing complexity while increasing scalability. Users will also be able to interact with and retrieve their data via a web based customer portal. We are currently working towards TangoLab-2 that is expected to dock the ISS in August, as well as a TangoLab-3 for suborbital flights.

  

Design & Assembly Studio, Testing Facilities:

Locations:

  • Headquarters in Lexington, Kentucky
  • Space Life Sciences Lab at Kennedy Space Center
  • Building 19 at NASA Ames Research Park

Facilities Available:

  • Class 10,000 & Class 1,000 Clean Room*
  • Vibration Table*

*Through partner Kentucky Space LLC

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Revisit of Local X-Ray Luminosity Function of Active Galactic Nuclei with the MAXI Extragalactic Survey

by cfynanon 22 August 2016in Earth Science and Remote Sensing No comment

We constructed a new X-ray (2–10 keV) luminosity function of Compton-thin active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the local universe, using the first MAXI/GSC source catalog surveyed in the 4–10 keV band. The sample consists of 37 non-blazar AGNs at z = 0.002–0.2, whose identification is highly (>97%) complete. We confirmed the trend that the fraction of absorbed AGNs with NH > 1022 cm 2 rapidly decreases against the luminosity (LX), from 0.73 ̇0.10 at LX = 1042 43:5 erg s 1 to 0.12 ̇ 0.08 at LX = 1043:5–45:5 erg s 1 . The obtained luminosity function was well-fitted with a smoothly connected double power-law model whose indices are 1 = 0.84 (fixed) and 2 = 2.0 ̇ 0.2 below and above the break luminosity, L = 1043:3 ̇0:4 ergs 1, respectively. While the result of the MAXI/GSC agrees well with that of HEAO-1 at LX & 1043:5 ergs 1, it gives a larger number density at the lower luminosity range. A comparison between our luminosity function in the 2–10 keV band and that in the 14–195 keV band obtained from the Swift/BAT survey indicates that the averaged broad-band spectra in the 2–200 keV band should depend on the luminosity, approximated by Γ 1.7 for LX . 1044 ergs 1, while Γ 2.0 for LX & 1044 ergs 1. This trend was confirmed by the correlation between the luminosities in the 2–10 keV and 14–195 keV bands in our sample. We argue that there is no contradiction in the luminosity functions between above and below 10 keV once this effect is taken into account.

Related URLs:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.0852

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