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3 Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) FY11 ESD Budget FY FY $1.8 billion over 4-years (FY ) Re-flies the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, which is critical to our understanding of the Earth’s carbon cycle and its effect on climate change Accelerates the development of new satellites to enhance observations of the climate and other Earth systems Expands and accelerates Venture-class competitive PI-led missions Enhances climate change modeling capabilities to enhance forecasts of regional and other effects Operates 15 Earth-observing spacecraft in orbit and launches Glory, NPP, and Aquarius Proceeds toward completion and launch of remaining foundational missions: LDCM (6/13) and GPM (7/13).
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NASA Headquarters Perspective on Space-Based Global Wind MeasurementsPresented to: Working Group on Space-Based Lidar Winds
February 2, 2010 George J. Komar
Associate Director/Program Manager
Earth Science Technology Office
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– Global Winds Measurements in the Decadal Survey• Currently a Tier 3 mission• Subject to overall budget pressures in Earth Science• Substantial risk-reducing investment in progress
– Technology Investments• Early investments in wind measurements and lasers• Current investments in the Decadal Survey era
– Next Steps• A wide range of new investment opportunities
Topics
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FY11 ESD Budget
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
FY 11 1801.7 1944.4 2089.4 2216.5 2282.1
FY 10 1405 1500 1550 1600 1650
• $1.8 billion over 4-years (FY 2011-14)
• Re-flies the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, which is critical to our understanding of the Earth’s carbon cycle and its effect on climate change
• Accelerates the development of new satellites to enhance observations of the climate and other Earth systems
• Expands and accelerates Venture-class competitive PI-led missions
• Enhances climate change modeling capabilities to enhance forecasts of regional and other effects
• Operates 15 Earth-observing spacecraft in orbit and launches Glory, NPP, and Aquarius
• Proceeds toward completion and launch of remaining foundational missions: LDCM (6/13) and GPM (7/13).
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NASA Earth Science Decadal Survey Missions
Tier I Tier II Tier III
Climate Absolute Radiance and
Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO)
Ice, Cloud,and land Elevation
Satellite II (ICESat-II)
Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)
Deformation, Ecosystem
Structure and Dynamics of
Ice (DESDynI)
Gravity Recovery and Climate
Experiment - II (GRACE - II)
Hyperspectral Infrared Imager
(HYSPIRI)
Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions
(ASCENDS)
Surface Water and Ocean
Topography (SWOT)
Geostationary Coastal and Air
Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE)
Aerosol - Cloud - Ecosystems
(ACE)
LIDAR Surface Topography
(LIST)
Precipitation and All-Weather
Temperature and Humidity (PATH)
Snow and Cold Land Processes
(SCLP)
Three-Dimensional Winds from Space Lidar (3D-Winds)
Global Atmospheric Composition Mission
(GACM)
Lasers Radars Passive Optics Passive Microwave
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A Strong Record of Technology Investment for Wind Measurements
Coherent Detection: • Demonstration of a hardened diode-pumped 2-µm laser (Kavaya/LaRC - IIP04)• Lab build and demonstration of integrated heterodyne photoreceiver (Amzajerdian/LaRC -
LRRP)• Integrated lidar photo receiver and sensor development (Abedin/LaRC - LRRP) • Development of an advanced optical heterodyne receiver (Mansour/JPL - ATI 99)• Laser diode characterization and lifetime demonstration (Amzajerdian/LaRC – LRRP)• Airborne demo of autonomous coherent-detection, pulsed, 2-micron, Doppler wind lidar
system (Kavaya/LaRC-IIP07)Direct Detection:
• Control and monitoring of laser thermal systems (Butler/GSFC - LRRP), • Narrow band, single mode, single frequency UV laser and space qualified etalon assembly for
O3 measurement (Gentry/GSFC -IIP04, ACT05)• Developed a high-power single frequency UV laser transmitter (Austin, Lite Cycles – SBIR
Phase III 06)• Airborne testing of Optical Autocovariance Wind Lidar transceiver (Grund/Ball Aerospace &
Technologies Corp.-IIP07)
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…and Investments in LasersSome Highlights:
CO2 Laser Sounder for the ASCENDS Mission- Abshire, NASA GSFC
DAWN: Doppler Aerosol WiNd Lidar (3D-Winds Mission)
- Kavaya, NASA LaRCEfficient Swath Mapping Laser
Altimetry (LIST Mission) - Yu, NASA GSFC
Technologies for a Combined HSRL and O3 DIAL (ACE Mission)- Hostetler, NASA LaRC
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Current ESTO Investments: Enabling the Decadal Survey
Instrument Technology Investments(Instrument Incubator Program Solicitation)
Instrument Investments that include planned airborne testing (2007 Instrument Incubator Program Solicitation)
Component Technology Investments(2008 Advanced Component Technologies Program Solicitation)
Information Systems Technology Investments with Direct Applicability (2008 Advanced Information System Technologies Program Solicitation)
Information Systems Technology Investments with Secondary Applicability (2008 Advanced Information System Technologies Program Solicitation)
(Note that individual Component and Information Systems Technologies often apply to more than one mission. )
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Development and Demonstration of an Optical Autocovariance Direct Detection Wind Lidar- Christian Grund, Ball Aerospace
GNSS Beamforming RF Processor- Tom Meehan, JPL
Airborne Demonstration of an Autonomous Operation Coherent Doppler Lidar
- Michael Kavaya, LaRC
Hybrid Doppler Wind Lidar (HDWL) Tranceiver- Cathy Marx, GSFC
Ultra-Sensitive Near-Infrared Optical Receiver- Michael Krainak, GSFCA Low, Cost, Lightweight, Optically Fast Corrugated
Mirror Telescope Array for Lidar and Passive ES- Michael Dobbs, ITT
Moving Objects Database Technology for Weather Event Analysis and Tracking
- Markus Schneider, University of Florida
Detector Development for Cloud-Aerosol Transport Lidar - Matthew McGill, GSFC
Design and Evaluation of Sensor Web Modeling and Data Assimilation System Architectures- Mike Seablom, GSFC
New Investments: Enabling 3D-Winds
Instruments
Components
Information Systems – Primary ApplicabilityInformation Systems – Secondary Applicability
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Stimulus-Funded Technology Development Global Hawk Instruments
This task will Integrate the LVIS capability onto the Global Hawk and provide an automated, reliable package for high altitude measurements.
Land, Vegetation, & Ice Sensor (LVIS)
GOLD will enable, for the first time, Ozone LIDAR measurements from a high-altitude aircraft that support global atmospheric composition and climate change investigations.
Global Ozone Lidar Demonstrator (GOLD)
UAVSARThe Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle – Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) project will install two existing UAVSAR pods on a UAV for the first time. On Global Hawk, UAVSAR will generate precise topographic maps and single-pass polarimetric interferograms of ice and vegetation.
Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO)
$1.6M$1.5M
$4.4M
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Toward New Investments
• Airborne Instrument Technology Transition (AITT) Solicitation: airborne experiments, in process of selection.
• Earth Venture-1 (EV-1) Solicitation: the first series of Venture Class proposals, in process of selection.
• Instrument Incubator Program (IIP) Solicitation: will be published in mid-February 2010.
• Earth Venture-2 (EV-2) Solicitation: will be released in FY2011
• Numerous R&A opportunities for demonstrations and flight campaigns
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