IN52A-02
Independant Technology Assessment within the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Testbed
Friday, 18 December 2015: 10:33
2020 (Moscone West)
Annie Bryant Burgess, University of Southern California, Computer Science, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Erin Robinson, Foundation for Earth Science, St. Louis, MO, United States and John Graybeal, Planet OS, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Abstract:
The Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) is a community of science, data and information technology practitioners. ESIP's mission is to support the networking and data dissemination needs of our members and the global community. We do this by linking the functional sectors of education, observation, research and application with the ultimate use of Earth science. Amongst the services provided to ESIP members is the Testbed; a collaborative forum for the development of technology standards, services, protocols and best practices. ESIP has partnered with the NASA Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) program to integrate independent assessment of Testing Readiness Level (TRL) into the ESIP Testbed. In this presentation we will 1) demonstrate TRL assessment in the ESIP Testbed using three AIST projects, 2) discuss challenges and insights into creating an independent validation/verification framework and 3) outline the versatility of the ESIP Testbed as applied to other technology projects.
