************************************************************************ Fall AGU Session: IN20: Revolutionary Space Exploration Concepts Using Onboard Computing ************************************************************************ From: Ashley Davies <Ashley.Davies@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Dear Colleagues: Please consider submitting abstracts to the following session at Fall AGU. Abstracts are due September 7, 2006. IN20: Revolutionary Space Exploration Concepts Using Onboard Computing Future missions will potentially perform many functions onboard the spacecraft such as preliminary data analysis, elements of mission planning, and rapid response without ground intervention. Onboard analysis can be used to select the most important science data, such as detecting rare events, as well as to identify and retarget the spacecraft to acquire critical data of transient events. This capability is already in use or development for several missions. For example, NASA's New Millennium Program Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment, currently flying in Earth orbit, controls the EO-1 spacecraft, allowing rapid response to detection of dynamic events (volcanic, flooding, and cryosphere change). Similar capabilities are in advanced development for the Mars Exploration Rovers and Mars Odyssey missions. This special session invites contributions covering concepts for future missions leveraging onboard data processing and decision-making, integration of assets into an automated network (a "sensor web") to enable rapid reaction to detection of dynamic events, and coordination of assets in a sensorweb. This session has two goals: to describe to the scientific community the increase in science return possible through use of the latest technological advances in spacecraft and rover autonomy; and to solicit contributions from the scientific community of requirements for improving investigations, both terrestrial and extra-terrestrial, through use of autonomy. Ashley Davies, Ph.D. Lead Scientist, NMP-ST6 Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment Asteroids, Comets and Satellites Group (3224) ms 183-501 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena, CA 91109-8099 tel: 818-393-1775 fax: 818-393-4445 email: Ashley.Davies@xxxxxxxxxxxx JPL webpage: http://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/ADavies/ ============================================================== To unsubscribe from the volcano list, send the message: signoff volcano to: listserv@xxxxxxx, or write to: volcano-request@xxxxxxxx To contribute to the volcano list, send your message to: volcano@xxxxxxxx Please do not send attachments. ==============================================================
