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Appendix E: NASA's Responses to the 2007 Decadal Survey and Its April 2011 Status Update
Appendix E: NASA's Responses to the 2007 Decadal Survey and Its April 2011 Status Update
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E NASA's Responses to the 2007 Decadal Survey and Its April 2011 Status Update This appendix lists each of the recommendations in the 2007 Earth science and applications from space decadal survey (National Research Council, Earth Science and Applications from Space: National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2007) and NASA's response to the report provided to the Space Studies Board in 2009, with updates from NASA given to the Committee on the Assessment of NASA's Earth Science Program at its first meeting on April 28, 2011.
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b Recommendation: The U.S. The committee predicated its schedules The decadal survey predicated its schedules government, working in concert and program on a NASA ESD budget and program on a NASA ESD budget that with the private sector, academe, the that reached the level of $2B/year reached the level of $2 billion/year [FY2006 public, and its international partners, (approximately equal to the FY2000 level)
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ATP. A TSI capability is not thought to be A TSI capability is not needed on NPP, needed on NPP, as the NASA Glory Mission as the NASA Glory mission, now due to carried a state-of-the-art TIM instrument, and launch NLT 11/2010 carries a state-of-the- the 2009 NASA ESD Senior Review extended art Total Irradiance Monitor instrument, the ongoing SORCE mission (ACRIMSAT was and the recent NASA ESD Senior Review also conditionally extended)
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on the GOES-R spacecraft. Recognizing the technological challenges and accompanying potential for growth in acquisition costs for HES, the committee recommends consideration of the following approaches: • Working with NASA, complete NOAA has not approached NASA with NOAA has not approached NASA with the GIFTS instrument, deliver it to any plans or discussions of implementing any plans for implementing a flight unit orbit via a cost-effective launch and a flight unit based on the existing based on the existing GIFTS Engineering spacecraft opportunity, and evaluate GIFTS Engineering Development Unit Development Unit, or any other approach.
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NASA. NASA continues to work with USGS to accommodate USGS funding issues for the LDCM Mission Operations Element contract/ development (MOE is a NASA procurement, using reimbursable funding from USGS)
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b NASA concept, pre-formulation, and Recommendation: In addition to NASA concept and formulation studies formulation studies indicate that the implementing the re-baselined indicate that the decadal survey mission decadal survey's mission cost estimates were NPOESS and GOES program and cost estimates are understated by understated by factors of 2-6.
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These include lidars to measure carbon dioxide, thermal advanced remote sensing instrument spectrometers to measure minerals and developments such as lidars to measure water resources, an interferometric synthetic carbon dioxide, thermal spectrometers to aperture radar to measure ocean topography, measure minerals and water resources, a radiometer to measure carbon monoxide, a an interferometric synthetic aperture Fourier transform spectrometer to measure radar to measure ocean topography, a trace gases, a polarimetric aerosol imager, radiometer to measure carbon monoxide, a cloud profiling radar, and an ocean color a Fourier transform spectrometer to radiometer. measure trace gases, a polarimetric aerosol imager, a cloud profiling radar, There are also many component and an ocean color radiometer.
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This is a recommendation to NOAA. in identifying and facilitating the NOAA has identified NOAA scientific and NOAA has identified NOAA scientific transition of demonstrably useful engineering points-of-contact for each and engineering POCs for each new research observations to operational new NASA decadal survey mission.
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For the decadal survey the Earth Science Division Applied Science missions, an Applied Sciences Program Program. For the decadal survey missions, point-of-contact has been assigned an Applied Sciences HQ POC has been to each mission to ensure two-way assigned to each mission to ensure two-way communications between the user and communications between the user and developer communities at all stages, developer communities at all stages, including including from the start of mission from the start of mission formulation.
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via suborbital platforms: airborne communities. Significant additional programs, which have suffered resources have been added to the Significant resources have been added substantial diminution, should be airborne science program to cover to the airborne science program to cover restored, and unmanned aerial vehicle maintenance and routine operations maintenance and routine operations of the technology should be increasingly of the airborne fleet (routine activities airborne fleet (previously funded directly factored into the nation's strategic which in many cases had to be funded from the research science budget)
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. NASA is preparing for a major role in such as GODAE (Global Ocean Data the upcoming IPCC Fifth Assessment Report Assimilation Office)
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Distribution decadal survey missions. Approximately focused specifically on multi-mission of data should be free or at low cost 11% of the entire ESD annual budget operations (EOSDIS and related information to users, and provided in an easily is focused specifically on multi-mission systems)
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model simulations, coupled model investigations designed to examine model investigations designed to the representation of Earth system processes examine the representation of Earth spanning a continuum of time and space system processes spanning a continuum scales associated with weather and climate, of time and space scales associated development of climate information from with weather and climate, development numerical simulations that can be applied of climate information from numerical at spatial and temporal scales suitable for simulations that can be applied at spatial increasing society's resilience to climate and temporal scales suitable for increasing change and development of climate society's resilience to climate change change adaptation strategies, development and development of climate change of innovative ways to apply Observation adaptation strategies, development of System Simulation Experiments to climate innovative ways to apply Observation prediction and the future design of space System Simulation Experiments to based observing systems, investigations climate prediction and the future design using the Modern Era Retrospective-analysis of space-based observing systems, for Research and Applications (MERRA) investigations using the Modern Era reanalysis data, Ice Sheet Modeling to Retrospective- analysis for Research and incorporate ice streams into the interior Applications (MERRA)
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Kennel, Chair, Space Studies Board, a National Research Council, dated October 25, 2009. Michael Freilich, Director, NASA Earth Science Division, "Earth Science Division Decadal Survey Status," presentation to the b Committee on the Assessment of NASA's Earth Science Program, April 27, 2011.
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