2008 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program
2008 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program
2008 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program
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Mission<br />
Planning Tools<br />
REAL TIME MISSION MONITOR<br />
System Overview<br />
The Real Time Mission Monitor (RTMM) is a<br />
situational awareness tool that integrates and<br />
displays satellite, airborne and surface data<br />
sets including geostationary imagery, passive<br />
microwave products, radar, sondes, lightning,<br />
current weather information, modeled forecast<br />
outputs, and vehicle state data (e.g., aircraft<br />
navigation, satellite tracks and instrument<br />
field-of-views) during airborne science<br />
missions. RTMM optimizes science and<br />
logistic decision-making during airborne<br />
missions and field experiments by<br />
presenting timely data and graphics to<br />
the users to improve real time situational<br />
awareness of <strong>NASA</strong>’s mission assets.<br />
Figure 38<br />
RTMM composite showing (a) zoom in on DC-8 flight track, (b) coincident<br />
DIAL curtain viewer depicting clouds and aerosol layers, (c) DC-8 track<br />
overlaid on GOES visible with lightning strikes in yellow during an ARCTAS<br />
Summer flight on July 6, <strong>2008</strong>.<br />
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