Professional cooperation with the visual satellite observing program.

Remote Observing with the Keck Telescope Using the ACTS Satellite

As a technical demonstration project for the NASA Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS), we have implemented remote observing on the 10-meter Keck II telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii from the California Institute of Technology campus in Pasadena. The data connection consists of optical fiber networks in Hawaii and California, connecting the end-points to high data rate (HDR) ACTS ...

Tropospheric emission spectrometer for the Earth Observing System's Aura satellite.

The Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) is an imaging infrared Fourier-transform spectrometer scheduled to be launched into polar Sun-synchronous orbit aboard the Earth Observing System's Aura satellite in June 2003. The primary objective of the TES is to make global three-dimensional measurements of tropospheric ozone and of the physical-chemical factors that control its formation, destru...

Professional Foster Parent Program

The Professional Foster Care Program is a pilot program designed to provide care and support to female youth, 13-17 with serious emotional and mental health needs through matching them with a foster care parent who is a paid professional employed by the foster care agency. The foster care parent, through undergoing specialized training also becomes the care coordinator for the youth. The foster...

A Visualizer for Observing Parallel Program Behavior

Decision-Making on-board an Autonomous Agile Earth-Observing Satellite

In this paper, we describe the Earth observation mission we have been working on, including its requirements in terms of autonomy. Then, we describe the decision problem to manage, the reactive/deliberative architecture we used for on-line decision-making, the decision rules used by the reactive part, and the iterated stochastic greedy search used by the deliberative part. Finally, we present r...