Information Fusion & Data Analytics for Human Lunar Exploration - Demonstration YEAR 3

The Information Fusion & Data Analytics (IFDA) is a Safety and Mission Assurance project. IFDA leverages existing JSC Engineering technologies, methodologies, and facilities to collect, warehouse, and deliver correlation to any and all data relevant to human lunar exploration.

NASA’s Human Spaceflight data and informatics isolation problem is a consequence of technology and cultural barriers that have not been addressed historically. The lack of adequate data analysis causes cost overruns, technical missteps, and program terminations. This is a technological gap at JSC – significantly behind state of the art techniques employed by the Department of Defense. The solution by data fusion and subsequent data analysis is demonstrated in the IFDA project. This project addresses the gap by demonstrating how to: A) Import disparate source data sets to include very large (big data genre) sets and multiples into a single interactive and easily accessible visualization environment. B) Fuse such data without content interpolation or other core data modification. C) Generate visualizations that are data-interactive for test and evaluation. D) Generate final product data-driven visualizations for program knowledge base, with controlled access, and knowledge archive.

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