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Monitoring Floods with NASA's ST6 Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment: Implications on Planetary ExplorationNASA's New Millennium Program (NMP) Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment (ASE) [1-3] has been successfully demonstrated in Earth-orbit. NASA has identified the development of an autonomously operating spacecraft as a necessity for an expanded program of missions exploring the Solar System. The versatile ASE spacecraft command and control, image formation, and science processing software was uploaded to the Earth Observer 1 (EO-1) spacecraft in early 2004 and has been undergoing onboard testing since May 2004 for the near real-time detection of surface modification related to transient geological and hydrological processes such as volcanism [4], ice formation and retreat [5], and flooding [6]. Space autonomy technology developed as part of ASE creates the new capability to autonomously detect, assess, react to, and monitor dynamic events such as flooding. Part of the challenge has been the difficulty to observe flooding in real time at sufficient temporal resolutions; more importantly, it is the large spatial extent of most drainage networks coupled with the size of the data sets necessary to be downlinked from satellites that make it difficult to monitor flooding from space. Below is a description of the algorithms (referred to as ASE Flood water Classifiers) used in tandem with the Hyperion spectrometer instrument on EO-1 to identify flooding and some of the test results.
Document ID
20050169831
Acquisition Source
Headquarters
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Ip, Felipe (Arizona Univ. Tucson, AZ, United States)
Dohm, J. M. (Arizona Univ. Tucson, AZ, United States)
Baker, V. R. (Arizona Univ. Tucson, AZ, United States)
Castano, B. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Chien, S. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Cichy, B. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Davies, A. G. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Doggett, T. (Arizona State Univ. Tempe, AZ, United States)
Greeley, R. (Arizona State Univ. Tempe, AZ, United States)
Sherwood, R. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
September 7, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2005
Publication Information
Publication: Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVI, Part 9
Subject Category
Spacecraft Instrumentation And Astrionics
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.

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