Abstract

This proposal addresses NASAs Earth Science missions and climate architecture plan and its underlying needs for high performance, modular, and scalable on-board processing. The decadal survey era missions are oriented not only to provide consistent observations with the previous generation of missions, but also to provide data to help scientists answer critical 21st century questions about global climate change, air quality, ocean health, and ecosystem dynamics, while adding new capabilities such as low-latency data products for extreme event warnings. Missions such as (P) ACE, HyspIRI, GEO-CAPE, ICESat-II, and ASCENDS are specifying instruments with significantly increased temporal, spatial, and frequency resolutions and moving to global, continuous observations. These goals translate into on-board processing throughput requirements that are on the order of 100-1,000 x more than previous Earth …

Date

2014

Authors

Matthew French

Journal

NASA Proposal ID. 14-AIST14-0049

Pages

49