BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 14.0 MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:16011104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:16010311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20141129T140018Z DESCRIPTION:JHU/APL Colloquium - www.jhuapl.edu/colloquium\n\nTOPIC: Multi- Spectral Imaging System: Background and Status\n\nSPEAKER: Dr. Michael K elly\, JHU/APL\n\nThe Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) has served the U.S. weather community for over 50 years. As DMSP approaches i ts end of life\, it will be necessary to develop a solution to meet milita ry weather imaging requirements. There have been several attempts to deve lop a follow-on program to DMSP. However\, declining budgets for the US D epartment of Defense have resulted in the need to identify innovative\, lo w-cost options to acquire multipoint weather observations. The previous s olutions relied on very large\, custom-designed space-based sensors to mee t the complex requirements of multiple users such as operational weather\, climate\, and research. As imaging technologies have improved and small satellite opportunities have proliferated\, it has become feasible to inte grate commercially available technologies to create compact\, low-cost sol utions. The JHU/APL solution is a multi-spectral system that has the key channels needed to detect and characterize the highest priority phenomena related to operational weather support. The philosophy of the system is t o keep the system very robust and simple by employing commercially availab le technology with no moving or scanning parts and no cryogenic cooling to provide a compact\, very economical solution. Airborne tests of a prototy pe demonstrated the sensitivity of this system for estimating cloud phase and cloud-top altitude. Examples from an airborne collection in the conti nental US will be presented.\n\n\nDr. Michael Kelly is the Group Superviso r and Project manager of the SRD group in the Space Exploration Sector at JHU/APL.\n\n DTEND;TZID="Eastern Standard Time":20141205T150000 DTSTAMP:20141129T140018Z DTSTART;TZID="Eastern Standard Time":20141205T140000 LAST-MODIFIED:20141129T140018Z LOCATION:Parsons Auditorium\, 1-S124 PRIORITY:5 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:Colloquium - Dr. Michael Kelly - Multi-Spectral Imag ing System: Background and Status TRANSP:OPAQUE UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E0080000000010F974A3E2B6CF01000000000000000 010000000F3666F241567FA47A2A5FAD002A2C9BD X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n\n
\n\nJHU/APL Colloquium - www.jhuapl.edu/colloquium
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The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) has served the U.S. weather community for over 50 years. \; As DMSP approaches its end of life\, it will be necessary to develop a solut ion to meet military weather imaging requirements. \; There have been several attempts to develop a follow-on program to DMSP. \; However\, declining budgets for the US Department of Defense have resulted in the ne ed to identify innovative\, low-cost options to acquire multipoint weather observations. \; The previous solutions relied on very large\, custom -designed space-based sensors to meet the complex requirements of multiple users such as operational weather\, climate\, and research. \; As ima ging technologies have improved and small satellite opportunities have pro liferated\, it has become feasible to integrate commercially available tec hnologies to create compact\, low-cost solutions. \; The JHU/APL solut ion is a multi-spectral system that has the key channels needed to detect and characterize the highest priority phenomena related to operational wea ther support. \; The philosophy of the system is to keep the system ve ry robust and simple by employing commercially available technology with n o moving or scanning parts and no cryogenic cooling to provide a compact\, very economical solution. Airborne tests of a prototype demonstrated the sensitivity of this system for estimating cloud phase and cloud-top altitu de. \; Examples from an airborne collection in the continental US will be presented.
\n Kelly is the Group Supervisor and Project manager of the SR
D group in the Space Exploration Sector at JHU/APL.