Briefs: Physical Sciences
Jet and Tropopause Products for Analysis and Characterization (JETPAC)
This suite of IDL programs provides identification and comprehensive characterization of the dynamical features of the jet streams in the upper troposphere, the lower stratospheric polar night jet, and the tropopause. The output of this software not only provides...
Briefs: Software
Multi-Mission Power Analysis Tool (MMPAT) Version 3
The Multi-Mission Power Analysis Tool (MMPAT) simulates a spacecraft power subsystem including the power source (solar array and/or radioisotope thermoelectric generator), bus-voltage control, secondary battery (lithium-ion or nickel-hydrogen), thermostatic heaters, and power-consuming...
Briefs: Software
Jupiter Environment Tool
The Jupiter Environment Tool (JET) is a custom UI plug-in for STK that provides an interface to Jupiter environment models for visualization and analysis. Users can visualize the different magnetic field models of Jupiter through various rendering methods, which are fully integrated within STK’s 3D Window. This allows...
Briefs: Software
WGM Temperature Tracker
This software implements digital control of a WGM resonator temperature based on the dual-mode approach. It comprises one acquisition and three modules. Interaction proportional-integral loops is designed in original...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Large Terrain Continuous Level of Detail 3D Visualization Tool
This software solved the problem of displaying terrains that are usually too large to be displayed on standard workstations in real time. The software can visualize terrain data sets composed of billions of vertices, and can display these data sets at greater than 30 frames per...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Earth-Science Data Co-Locating Tool
This software is used to locate Earthscience satellite data and climate-model analysis outputs in space and time. This enables the direct comparison of any set of data with different spatial and temporal resolutions. It is written in three separate modules that are clearly separated for their functionality and...
Ultra-efficient real-time structural monitoring algorithms have been developed to provide extensive information about the physical response of structures under load....
Briefs: Information Technology
CometQuest: A Rosetta Adventure
CometQuest is an educational Apple iPhone game outlining the Rosetta mission to comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Its goal is to provide an enjoyable means to learn about the Rosetta mission through action gameplay where the player takes the role of Rosetta’s mission operator and tries to capture and record as much...
Briefs: Information Technology
Mission Analysis, Operations, and Navigation Toolkit Environment (Monte) Version 040
Monte is a software set designed for use in mission design and spacecraft navigation operations. The system can process measurement data, design optimal trajectories and maneuvers, and do orbit determination, all in one application. For the first time, a single...
Briefs: Information Technology
Tiled WMS/KML Server V2
This software is a higher-performance implementation of tiled WMS, with integral support for KML and time-varying data. This software is compliant with the Open Geospatial WMS standard, and supports KML natively as a WMS return type, including support for the time attribute. Regionated KML wrappers are generated that...
Briefs: Information Technology
Where’s My Data — WMD
WMD provides a centralized interface to access data stored in the Mission Data Processing and Control System (MPCS) GDS (Ground Data Systems) databases during MSL (Mars Science Laboratory) Testbeds and ATLO (Assembly, Test, and Launch Operations) test sessions. The MSL project organizes its data based on venue (Testbed,...
Briefs: Software
Dig Hazard Assessment Using a Stereo Pair of Cameras
This software evaluates the terrain within reach of a lander’s robotic arm for dig hazards using a stereo pair of cameras that are part of the lander’s sensor system. A relative level...
Briefs: Software
Mars Express Forward Link Capabilities for the Mars Relay Operations Service (MaROS)
This software provides a new capability for landed Mars assets to perform forward link relay through the Mars Express (MEX) European Union orbital spacecraft. It solves the problem of standardizing the relay interface between lander missions and MEX.
Briefs: Information Technology
FERMI/GLAST Integrated Trending and Plotting System Release 5.0
An Integrated Trending and Plotting System (ITPS) is a trending, analysis, and plotting system used by space missions to determine performance and status of spacecraft and its instruments. ITPS supports several NASA mission operational control centers providing engineers, ground...
Briefs: Software
Scalable Integrated Multi-Mission Support System Simulator Release 3.0
The Scalable Integrated Multi-mission Support System (SIMSS) is a tool that performs a variety of test activities related to spacecraft simulations and ground segment checks.
Briefs: Software
Policy-Based Negotiation Engine for Cross-Domain Interoperability
A successful policy negotiation scheme for Policy-Based Management (PBM) has been implemented. Policy negotiation is the process of determining the “best” communication...
Briefs: Information Technology
SE-FIT
The mathematical theory of capillary surfaces has developed steadily over the centuries, but it was not until the last few decades that new technologies have put a more urgent demand on a substantially more qualitative and quantitative understanding of phenomena relating to capillarity in general. So far, the new theory development...
Briefs: Information Technology
WMS Server 2.0
This software is a simple, yet flexible server of raster map products, compliant with the OGC WMS 1.1.1 protocol. The server is a full implementation of the OGC WMS 1.1.1 as a fastCGI client and using GDAL for data access. The server can operate in a proxy mode, where all or part of the WMS requests are done on a back server.
Briefs: Software
High-Performance Modeling and Simulation of Anchoring in Granular Media for NEO Applications
NASA is interested in designing a spacecraft capable of visiting a near- Earth object (NEO), performing experiments, and then returning safely....
Briefs: Software
Mobile Multi-System Overview
At the time of this reporting, there are 2,589 rich mobile devices used at JPL, including 1,550 iPhones and 968 Blackberrys. Considering a total JPL population of 5,961 employees, mobile applications have a total...
Briefs: Information Technology
Ascent/Descent Software
The Ascent/Descent Software Suite has been used to support a variety of NASA Shuttle Program mission planning and analysis activities, such as range safety, on the Integrated Planning System (IPS) platform. The Ascent/Descent Software Suite, containing Ascent Flight Design (ASC)/Descent Flight Design (DESC) Configuration...
Briefs: Software
I-FORCAST: Rapid Flight Planning Tool
I-FORCAST (Instrument – Field of Regard Coverage Analysis and Simulation Tool) is a flight planning tool specifically designed for quickly verifying the feasibility and estimating the cost of airborne...
Briefs: Software
Leveraging Cloud Computing to Improve Storage Durability, Availability, and Cost for MER Maestro
The Maestro for MER (Mars Exploration Rover) software is the premiere operation and activity planning software for the Mars rovers, and it is required to deliver all of the processed image products to scientists on demand. These data span multiple...
Articles: Imaging
3D Visualization in Geospatial Analysis
The past decade has seen an explosion of observations from airborne and satellite-based multiand hyperspectral sensors, as well as from synthetic-aperture radar and LiDAR. Distilling useful information...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Glass Solder Approach for Robust, Low-Loss, Fiber-to- Waveguide Coupling
The key advantages of this approach include the fact that the index of interface glass (such as Pb glass n = 1.66) greatly reduces Fresnel losses at the fiber-to-waveguide interface, resulting in lower optical losses. A contiguous structure cannot be misaligned and readily...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
General MACOS Interface for Modeling and Analysis for Controlled Optical Systems
The General MACOS Interface (GMI) for Modeling and Analysis for Controlled Optical Systems (MACOS) enables the use of MATLAB as a front-end for JPL’s critical optical modeling package, MACOS. MACOS is JPL’s in-house optical modeling software, which has proven to...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
ASIC Readout Circuit Architecture for Large Geiger Photodiode Arrays
The objective of this work was to develop a new class of readout integrated circuit (ROIC) arrays to be operated with Geiger avalanche photodiode (GPD) arrays, by integrating multiple functions at the pixel level (smart-pixel or active pixel technology) in 250-nm CMOS...
Features: Photonics/Optics
Digital Imaging Systems for Ballistics Testing
Traditionally, the recording of ordnance proofing data has been split into two main areas: instrumentation and high speed photography. Instrumentation was more focused on the collection of...
Dell, Round Rock, TX, has introduced the Dell Pre cision M4700 and M6700 15" and 17" mobile workstations that incorporate Intel Core i5, i7, and Extreme Ed ition processors with Turbo...
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