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Innovative Technologies Contributing to Future Earth Science Capabilities

Innovative Technologies Contributing to Future Earth Science Capabilities Presented to: Working Group on Space-Based Lidar Winds June 17, 2009. George J. Komar Associate Director/Program Manager Earth Science Technology Office. Earth Science Division Overview.

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Innovative Technologies Contributing to Future Earth Science Capabilities

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  1. Innovative Technologies Contributing to Future Earth Science Capabilities Presented to: Working Group on Space-Based Lidar Winds June 17, 2009 George J. Komar Associate Director/Program Manager Earth Science Technology Office

  2. Earth Science Division Overview • Overarching goal: to advance Earth System science, including climate studies, through spaceborne data acquisition, research and analysis, and predictive modeling • Six major activities: • Building and operating Earth observing satellite missions, many with international and interagency partners • Making high-quality data products available to the broad science community • Conducting and sponsoring cutting-edge research in 6 thematic focus areas • Field campaigns to complement satellite measurements • Modeling • Analyses of non-NASA mission data • Applied Science • Developing technologies to improve Earth observation capabilities • Education and Public Outreach

  3. Enable previously unforeseen or infeasible science investigations Far infrared Spectroscopy of the Troposphere (FIRST) - first ever complete infrared emission spectrum of the Earth (key data for global change studies) Gravity gradiometer - for measurements of the sub-surface structure of the solid and fluid Earth Enhance existing measurement or operational capabilities New, radiation tolerant low-power transceiver Electronic design tools accelerate design and analysis of Field Programmable Gate Arrays Reduce cost, risk, or development times Mass and size reductions (AIRS-Light, MISR-2) Why Do Technology?

  4. Approach to Technology Development • Science driven, competed, actively managed, dynamically communicated • Competitive, peer-reviewed proposals enable selection of best-of-class technology investments • Risks are retired before major dollars are invested: a cost-effective approach to technology development and validation • This approach has resulted in: • a portfolio of emerging technologies that will enhance and/or enable future science measurements • a growing number of infusion successes: • technologies are infused into: science campaigns, instruments, ground systems and missions • infusion is by competitive selection by science investigators or mission managers, not the technology program

  5. NASA Earth Science Decadal Survey Missions Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) Hyperspectral Infrared Imager (HYSPIRI) LIDAR Surface Topography (LIST) Precipitation and All-Weather Temperature and Humidity (PATH) Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions (ASCENDS) Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment - II (GRACE - II) Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Ice, Cloud,and land Elevation Satellite II (ICESat-II) Snow and Cold Land Processes (SCLP) Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Three-Dimensional Winds from Space Lidar (3D-Winds) Deformation, Ecosystem Structure and Dynamics of Ice (DESDynI) Aerosol - Cloud - Ecosystems (ACE) Global Atmospheric Composition Mission (GACM) Tier III Tier II Tier I

  6. NASA Earth Science Decadal Survey Missions Using Lasers Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) Hyperspectral Infrared Imager (HYSPIRI) LIDAR Surface Topography (LIST) Precipitation and All-Weather Temperature and Humidity (PATH) Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions (ASCENDS) Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment - II (GRACE - II) Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Ice, Cloud,and land Elevation Satellite II (ICESat-II) Snow and Cold Land Processes (SCLP) Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Three-Dimensional Winds from Space Lidar (3D-Winds) Deformation, Ecosystem Structure and Dynamics of Ice (DESDynI) Aerosol - Cloud - Ecosystems (ACE) Global Atmospheric Composition Mission (GACM) Tier III Tier II Tier I

  7. Examples of ESTO Investments: Lasers CLARREO HyspIRI LIST Far-infrared spectrometer UV-SWIR spectrometer High rep-rate lasers Swath-imaging laser altimeter Thermal IR spectrometers SMAP ASCENDS PATH L-band radiometer/radar RFI mitigation CO2 Sounder Fiber-based lasers 2-D thinned array sounder Hi-freq. MMIC receivers ICESat-II SWOT GRACE-II One micron laser technology Diode life testing Ka-band interferometric SAR Ku and Ka-band downconverters Laser range transceiver Frequency-stabilized lasers DESDynI GEO-CAPE SCLP L-band InSAR & T/R modules Laser beam steering UV-Vis-NIR spectrometers IR mapping spectrometer Ku-band MMIC T/R modules Onboard SAR processor ACE GACM Multi-angle polarimeter High spectral resolution lidar Dual-frequency radar Ocean color spectrometer UV-Vis-IR spectrometers Scanning microwave sounder 3D-Winds Tier I UV direct detection and two micron coherent instruments Tier II Tier III

  8. Examples of ESTO Investments: Lasers Technologies for a Combined HSRL and O3 DIAL (ACE Mission)- Hostetler, NASA LaRC CO2 Laser Sounder for the ASCENDS Mission- Abshire, NASA GSFC DAWN: Doppler Aerosol WiNd Lidar (3D-Winds Mission)- Kavaya, NASA LaRC Efficient Swath Mapping Laser Altimetry (LIST Mission)- Yu, NASA GSFC

  9. Roadmap to 3-D Winds Space Mission Technology Science NRC Decadal Survey 3-D Winds Space Mission Current Future 22 ESD $200M 15 Aircraft Science Flights 10 14 GRIP Hurricane Campaign ESD $0.6M 10 12 DAWN-AIR2 ESTO $1.5M DAWN-AIR1 09 11 ESD $1M 08 10 Ground Intercomparison ESD $0.3M 08 IPP 09 ESD $0.5M DAWN 10 08 06 08 ESTO $2.9M LRRP ESTO $40M 02 09 ATIP Funded Projects 01 98 ESTO $1M Past Current Technology

  10. “Foundational” Glory (1/2010) Aquarius (5/2010) NPP (1-6/2010) LDCM (12/2012) (w/o TIRS) GPM (7/2013, 11/2015) “National Needs” Carbon Recovery (vice-OCO) TIRS (LDCM or free-flyer) DSCOVR SAGE-III GIFTS New Mission Classes (ESD) “Decadal Survey” Venture-Class (2009, 2011, …) SMAP (3/2014) ICESAT-II (2015) CLARREO DESDynI (SAR, LIDAR) Tier-2 (5 missions) Tier-3 (6 missions) “Climate/Operational” • Vector Winds (vice QuikSCAT) • Space Weather (vice ACE) • Ocean color, Aerosols (vice MODIS) • Nadir Altimetry (vice OSTM/Jason-2) • GPSRO • Broad-band Radiation Bud.(CERES) • “R 2 O” infusion …

  11. Earth Science Technology Challanges - Active Remote Sensing Technologies to enable atmospheric, cryospheric and earth surface measurements - Large Deployables to enable future weather/climate/ natural hazards measurements - Intelligent Distributed Systems using advanced communication, on-board reprogrammable processors, autonomous network control, data compression, high density storage - Information Knowledge Capture through 3-D visualization, holographic memory and seamlessly linked models.

  12. Currently funded technologies are providing state-of-the-art instruments, components, and information systems capabilities for a wide range of Earth science measurements. New awards for instrument, component, and information system technologies are being selected by NASA. These technologies will provide new capabilities that will enable the Earth Science Decadal Survey missions. Active remote sensing systems are a major and substantial key to the future success of Earth Science advances. Conclusions and Current Status http://esto.nasa.gov

  13. Technology Enables our Future

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