1. Science Mission Directorate Steve Smith Earth Science Technology Program September 13, 2006 Earth Science Technology Program Overview Presentation at the CEOS Working Group on Info Systems & Services

2. 2 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 Topics

3. 3 Implementation - Program Elements Observational Technologies: 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

4. 4 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

5. 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 Results to Date for all of ESTO 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 8 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 Example Infusion Successes in AIST Projects LPT Modular Design for Reconfigurable Communications 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 EO-1 Onboard Cloud Cover Detection Ops Concept

9. 9 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 Example Infusion Successes in AIST Projects (Cont’)

10. 10 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 Example Infusion Successes in AIST Projects (Cont’) 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

11. 11 Federal Labs (6) 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) 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) JPL (32) AIST 22 CT 10 GRC (6) AIST 5 ATI 1 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) Academia (41) LaRC (3) AIST 3 GSFC (51) AIST 43 CT 8 AIST: 140 ATI: 2 Comp. Tech.: 28 ____ Total: 170 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) ARC (4) Info Systems AIST 4 Info Systems Technology Investments (NRA99-05) MSFC (1) AIST 1

12. 12 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 Recent AIST Sensor Web Solicitation Overview

13. 13 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)

14. 14 28 awards: Distributed over 16 states and DC AIST-05 Award Distribution, by State WA OR CA AZ UT MT NE CO NM TX OK KS AK HI LA AR MS AL GA FL SC MO IL IN KY NC VA OH PA MN WI IA NY MD ME NH MA CTMI SD WY NV ND WV VT ID NJ DE DC RI WY MST

15. 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