NASA's Earth Now is a mobile device application that visualizes recent global climate data from Earth science satellites, including surface air temperature, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, ozone, and water vapor as well as gravity and sea level variations.The project was developed by the Earth...

This software provides a generic means for people to interactively view the real-time location, speed and recent data gatherings of several of NASA's Earth observing Satellites using a 3-D graphical interface. It allows anyone with web access to see where the NASA fleet of Earth Observing...

UAVSAR backscatter data contain both geometric and radiometric distortions due to underlying topography and the radar viewing geometry. Currently, backscatter variation due to topography is the single largest error source when estimating biomass over steep or hilly terrain. Thus, proper calibration...

Researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory worked with the brain surgeon who directs the Skull Base Institute in Los Angeles to create the first endoscope fit for brain surgery and capable of producing 3D video images. It is also the first to be able to steer its lens back and forth. These...

A software application was developed to visualize orbit paths for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO). This software enables interactive exploration of spacecraft orbit paths and ground footprint paths in a 3D environment. Detailed information about any particular observation frame is available...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory awarded the Brimrose Corporation a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to develop the Luminar 5030 Mini Spectrometer, a compact, rugged, near-infrared spectrometer. The product delivers rapid, multi-component analysis for a wide variety of commercial...

This method is an optical module to the existing opticalcommunication receiver architecture. For optical links with intensity modulated laser transmission or phase modulated CW lasercommunications the proposed optical receiver provides both data detection and signals required to extract Radio...

The CAS Crawling framework supports many of the Nutch crawler's generic services, including metadata extraction, crawling, and ingestion, however, one service that was not ported over from Nutch is a generic protocol layer service that allows the Nutch crawler to obtain content using protocol plug-...

The GNC covariance analysis tool (G-CAT) has been developed to support landing/descent/ascent/rendezvous applications in lunar, planetary, and small body missions. G-CAT characterizes on-board knowledge propagation errors associated with Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) errors (gyro and...

A gas sensor originally built for NASA to measure the composition of the atmosphere of Earth and Mars has been commercialized by SpectraSensors. The commercial tunable diode laser (TDL) gas sensor can be used for oil and gas pipeline monitoring, aircraft safety, environmental monitoring and...