2. PROPOSED WORK
2.1 Liaisons with the Broader Scientific Community
In addition to mission science objectives and measurement requirements, the development of a comprehensive calibration and validation plan, including detailed test procedures, and an executable algorithm plays a critically important role to assure mission success. Successful implementation of these pre-launch activities requires close interaction among the project management, science community, and instrument vendors. Furthermore, post-launch satellite inter-comparisons are facilitated by active participation in international calibration and characterization organizations.
Dr. Butler and Dr. Xiong represent NASA’s remote sensing science interests as members of the executive panel and Cal/Val Working Group of the Global Space-based Inter-calibration System (GSICS) and as participants in the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Working Group for Calibration and Validation (WGCV). Interaction and collaboration with the Earth remote sensing community have been established through Dr. Xiong’s experience as MODIS Project Scientist, MODIS Calibration Scientist, VIIRS Calibration Scientist, and as Technical Lead of the MODIS Characterization Support Team and the NPP Instrument Characterization Support Team and Dr. Butler’s experience as EOS Calibration Scientist and NPP Deputy Project Scientist for Calibration and Validation. Moreover, the MODIS and VIIRS instruments on EOS and NPP/JPSS are key sensors in evaluating and guiding current studies and future intercomparison approaches of CLARREO satellite data.
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.... Based on our experiences gained from direct involvement in the EOS and the NPP/JPSS programs, both conventional and state of the art methodologies and approaches to prelaunch calibration and characterization will be identified and evaluated with itemized and fully annotated uncertainty budgets. These analyses will then be extended to the postlaunch timeframe with the examination of radiometric and spectral uncertainties in satellite instrument inter-comparison techniques. Resulting uncertainties will be “rolled up” into overall on-orbit measurement uncertainties for a number of potential design scenarios and testing approaches of the CLARREO reflected solar instrument. All uncertainty analyses will be performed in accordance with NIST Technical Note 1297, which outlines recommended guidelines for the evaluation and expression of uncertainty in measurements [R].
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NSSS states a few current trends in space as being “congested and contested” (NSSS, 8), which is shaping our space strategic environment as well as fueling debates for space weapons. “Congested” trend refers to the current “60 nations and government consortia that own and operate satellites and the expectation to have 9000 satellite communication transponders in orbit by 2015.
All instruments aboard the SOHO spacecraft fall under one of the following headings based on what area of the Sun it is suppose to observe and measure: the solar interior, the solar atmosphere, or the solar wind. The solar interior instruments such as GOLF (Global Oscillations at Low Frequencies) and VIRGO (Variability of Solar Irradiance and Gravity Oscillations) both perform oscillation measurements of the full solar disk which obtains information concerning the solar nucleus. In addition, the instruments that measure the solar atmosphere such as the CDS (Coronal Diagnostics Spectrometer) and UVCS (Ultraviolet Coronograph Spectrometer) observe both the inner and outer corona. They obtain measurements of temperature, density, composition, and velocity in the corona with high resolution. Finally, the instruments that analyze and measure the solar wind include ERNE (Energetic and Relativistic Nuclei and Electron experiment) and CELIAS (Charge, Element, and Isotope Analysis System) which measure the charge state and isotopic composition of ions in the solar wind. These two instruments also determine the charge and isotopic composition of energetic particles generated by the Sun.
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VITIS/ Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer: its purpose is to assess the component of the solids in the nucleus as well as the various gases found in the coma of the comet (the next layer after the nucleus);
Check: Check any changes achieve the desired goals or not. Moreover, NASA management should continue checking key activities to ensure the quality delivered by the project.
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Mirror all the functions of the SoC as they relate to coordination with the Administrator of NASA for systems and observational data pertaining to civilian land
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I. With the world’s supply of oil running dry the Unites States must begin looking into new sources of energy, and the most promising is solar power.
The current age of digital information has brought many changes to our culture. We see clear evidence of this within the area of scholarly communication. These changes involve the significant increase in the amount of information that is available, the variety of the type of content included in scholarship, the dissemination process and the way scholars access and interact with this information. The academic library has traditionally strived to build collections, organize them for access and facilitate retrieval to support the research and teaching objectives of their students and faculty. Currently, the library is engaged in a redefining process in light of these transformations. It was thought that the dawn of digital content would provide increased and timelier access to a larger collection of scholarship and at the same time provide libraries with some economic benefit. Although the amount of scholarship that is digitally available certainly has increased, many would contend that the ability to access it has been curtailed. As for the economic advantage for libraries, that has never materialized. According to Mary Case of the Association of Research Libraries, “Electronic versions of their [publishers’] journals are produced as add-ons, at the end of the print process. As a result, those added costs are passed on to the subscriber.”1 But as scholarly research abounds and traditional avenues for dissemination and preservation have become more cost prohibitive and scholars are exploring new avenues for maximum distribution and exposure, libraries continue to search for their role in this endeavor.
The earliest referenced article that discusses the controversy over Pluto’s planetary status came from The Globe and Mail and was titled “What In The World” on January 27, 2001. At this time, many astro...