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Goddard Space Flight Center Engineering Colloquium
Date: Monday, November 30, 1998
Rapid technological advances are enabling new types of space-based Earth observations for the benefit of the Earth Science community and other users of remotely sensed information. Not only are new measurements enabled by these technologies, but new system architectures are enabled as well. This presentation reviews recently developed NASA Earth Science missions, reviews on-going developments of smaller Earth Science missions, reviews examples of new technologies to enable new Earth Science missions and observations in the 5-25 year timeframe, and provides examples of future advanced system architectures for Earth Science missions.
Ray Taylor served as instrument accommodations manager for the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) AM mission, coordinating the instrument interface and accommodation work for five new development Earth Science instruments with the new development spacecraft. More recently, Mr. Taylor has developed mission concepts for future advanced Earth Science missions, focusing on increased spatial, spectral, and temporal resolution Earth observations together with their attendant system architecture challenges in the areas of on-board data processing systems, wide-band space-ground communications, and spacecraft control using enhanced autonomy.
Colloquium Committee Sponsor: Jim Gatlin
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