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NIST in Space: Better Remote Sensors for Better Science
Completed
TRL 3 (started at 2, targeting 3)
Description
This NASA Innovative Research Grant activity conducts engineering analysis to demonstrate the feasibility and advantages of applying a breakthrough remote sensor calibration concept to a wide range of future NASA remote sensor science missions, e.g., PACE, GEO-CAPE, CLARREO, HySpIRI, GACM and Heliophysics research.
Benefits
Commercialization of the concept for use in electro-optic laboratories worldwide is foreseen. Any scientific application requiring precision photon flux measurements in the 250 - 3000 nm wavelength range will benefit.
Details
| Technology area | Software, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing > Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence > Collaborative Science and Engineering |
| Program | NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) |
| Lead organization | ITT Exelis Geospatial Systems |
| Start date | 2012-09-01 |
| End date | 2013-06-01 |
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