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Office of the Director and AETD
Scope of Research
With the advent of digital
detectors and the subsequent application of large-format and hyperspectral
imaging in Earth and space science, the skyrocketing need for computing
power and intelligent data analysis and archiving has become of paramount
interest to NASA. At the GEST Center, the end-to-end data collection, assimilation,
and analysis process is studied from the computer and information science
perspective.
Computational optics, and the challenging problem of registration of
Earth and space imagery, are two subjects covered in this Research Group,
in addition to developing system-level software and applications for implementation
on Beowulf-class parallel computers, (i.e., clusters of commodity PCs
running the Linux operating system, connected through dedicated local
area networks). An additional direction from which IS&T researchers
are attacking the challenge of extraction of knowledge from massive and
complex data sets is through the development of sophisticated data assimilation
processes. Activities on gathering and processing data would be wasted
energy if-once the data were analyzed-they could not be accessed by the
broader scientific community. Interoperability among computer platforms
and applications is an active area of research at GEST. Ultimately, the
information and knowledge from NASA's Earth and space science missions
is to be communicated to scientists, educators, learners and the general
public. IS&T activities include studies of use of state-of-the-art
information technologies to enhance kindergarten-to-high school science,
mathematics, technology and geography education through Internet-based
products derived from content on NASA's missions.
Group Members
GEST members in
the Office of the Director and AETD research group, with
links to their biographical information (faculty only) and their GSFC
Branch, along with a contact email address.
| Bell, Benita |
606.0 |
benita@muspin.gsfc.nasa.gov |
| Cook, Laurie |
130.3 |
lcook@umbc.edu |
| Delaney, Marci |
130.3 |
mpdelane@umbc.edu |
| Frostic, Maria |
130.3 |
mfrostic@pop100.gsfc.nasa.gov |
| Garner, Robert |
130 |
rgarner@pop100.gsfc.nasa.gov |
| Georgieva, Elena |
554 |
egeorgie@pop500.gsfc.nasa.gov |
| Hoban, Susan |
610.6 |
susan.hoban@gsfc.nasa.gov |
| Koratkar, Anuradha |
610.6 |
koratkar@umbc.edu |
| Kostis, Helen-Nicole |
610.3 |
eleni@umbc.edu |
| Laughlin, Daniel |
610.6 |
dan.laughlin@gsfc.nasa.gov |
| Misztal, Stefanie |
130 |
smisztal@pop600.gsfc.nasa.gov |
| Stroud, David |
130 |
dstroud@pop400.gsfc.nasa.gov |
| Unninayar, Sushel |
610.6 |
Sushel.Unninayar.1@gsfc.nasa.gov |
Downloads
These are presentations and other materials from our research group.
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