2009 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program

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JASSIWG Joint Airborne Science Sensor Integration Working Group The Airborne Science Program has initiated a multi-center working group to examine the differences in engineering requirements and processes across the airborne science fleet, and to assess the potential benefits for common information and design requirements among the aircraft. The Joint Airborne Science Sensor Integration Working Group (or JASSIWG) was made up from representatives from six NASA centers, as well as the Aerospace Corporation and NSERC. The goal of the working group is to improve access to NASA airborne platforms from the science community by coordinating and streamlining NASA aircraft instrument integration requirements and technical information across the platforms. This streamlining will allow a more consistent access experience by the science community, and will encourage migration of science instruments across the NASA fleet. It has the added advantage of reducing redundant activities and fostering communication across the NASA centers, as well as improving science management operations. A key element of the success of the JASSIWG effort is the consensus and acceptance by both the science and aircraft engineering communities to a more common requirements set. Current JASSIWG activities are focused on the development of updated aircraft platform Experimenter Handbooks, using a common structure and format, and analysis of aircraft integration requirements to assess potential for commonality. During FY09, the working group conducted two meetings to discuss general approach, planned work, and consensus documents. The working group developed a Payload Information Form (PIF), which will be used by the PI-community to define needs and requirements for integrating and flying scientific payloads on NASA Airborne Science platforms. In addition, a standard outline, format, and requirements syntax for the Experiment Handbooks was agreed to. Each of the centers has agreed to update their respective handbooks by March 2010. These include the DC-8, ER-2, WB-57, P-3, G-III, Global Hawk, Langley B-200/UC-12B, S-3, Twin Otter, Learjet 25, and SIERRA aircraft. Extensive effort was devoted to extracting, reviewing, and assessing aircraft requirements for four of the ASP platforms, the DC-8, ER- 2, WB-57, and P-3. Approximately 850 design, operational, and safety requirements were identified for the four platforms, which were put into spreadsheet form for additional analysis. These requirements were binned by subsystem (electrical, mechanical, etc.) and were assessed for: (1) conditions under which they must be met by the PI, (2) clarity of description and syntax, potential redundancy with other similar requirements, and (3) the degree to which similar requirements might be made common (standard practice) across the aircraft. A web page has been developed as a part of the Airborne Science Program web site to describe the function of the working group and to be the source for the documents generated by the 50
JASSIWG effort (http://airbornescience.nasa. gov/instrument/JASSIWG). In addition, an internal web archive was set up by NSERC to host working documents, draft analyses, past presentations, etc. Results of the JASSIWG efforts were presented at the 2009 ASP Annual Review and the Interagency Coordinating Committee for Airborne Geosciences Research and Applications (ICCAGRA) working group meeting. Also, a technical paper and poster of the JASSIWG approach and results were given at the 33rd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE), in Stresa, Italy in May 2009. 51
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