A41H:
The Rise of Small Satellite Constellations for Earth Observation II Posters

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Session ID#: 13542

Session Description:
Earth and geospace observation from space-based constellations holds the promise of simultaneous global coverage at high temporal resolution.  The maturation of small satellite and constellation technologies is providing new opportunities for making the next great leap in science and applications, using multi-point observatories.   This session explores Earth and space science problems that are or could be addressed using small satellite constellations or swarms and the underlying observation approaches that make new solutions possible.  We invite contributions presenting current or planned missions, mission concepts, studies that define measurement requirements, and new and developing technologies that specifically enable constellations.
Primary Convener:  William H Swartz, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Charles D Norton, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Pamela Millar, University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States and David M Klumpar, Montana State University - Bozeman, Space Science and Engineering Laboratory, Department of Physics, Bozeman, United States
Chairs:  William H Swartz, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, David M Klumpar, Montana State University - Bozeman, Space Science and Engineering Laboratory, Department of Physics, Bozeman, United States, Charles D Norton, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Pamela Millar, University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Charles D Norton, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-Organized with:
SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics, Earth and Space Science Informatics, SPA-Aeronomy, and SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Index Terms:

0394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0399 General or miscellaneous [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3360 Remote sensing [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3399 General or miscellaneous [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Evaluation of the Use of CubeSats in Atmospheric Profiling (127332)
Jonathan Paul Olson, Colorado State University, 1373 Campus, Fort Collins, CO, United States and V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, United States
Space-based observatories providing key data for climate change applications (136151)
Johanne Lecomte and Jean-Jacques Juillet, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Orbital and Sampling Strategies for Accurately Determining the Diurnal Cycle of Upper-Air Temperature Using a Constellation of Small Satellites (139141)
Carl A Mears1, William J Blackwell2, Albin John Gasiewski3, Vincent Vincent Leslie2, Jeffrey R. Piepmeier4, Paul Racette5, Philip W Rosenkranz6 and Benjamin D Santer7, (1)Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA, United States, (2)MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, United States, (3)Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Retired, Washington, DC, United States, (7)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
The SIGMA CubeSat Mission for Space Research and Technology Demonstration (140398)
Seongwhan Lee1, Jung-Kyu Lee2, Hyojeong Lee1, Jehyuck Shin3, Seonyeong Jeong2, Ho Jin3, Uk-won Nam4, Hyomin Kim5, Marc Lessard6 and Regina Lee7, (1)NARA Space Technology, Seoul, South Korea, (2)Kyung Hee University, School of Space Research, Yongin, Korea, Republic of (South), (3)Kyung Hee University, School of Space Research, Yongin, South Korea, (4)KASI Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, South Korea, (5)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, Edison, NJ, United States, (6)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (7)York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
The CubeSat Infrared Atmospheric Sounder (CIRAS): Demonstrating key technologies for a future constellation to improve temporal sampling (141599)
Thomas S Pagano, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Attempt to the detection of small wildfire by the uncooled micro bolometer camera onboard 50 kg class satellite (155547)
Tetsuya Fukuhara, Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan, Toru Kouyama, AIST - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, Soushi Kato, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan and Ryosuke Nakamura, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
Optimizing the Attitude Control of Small Satellite Constellations for Rapid Response Imaging (157527)
Sreeja Nag, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Alan Li, NASA Ames Research Center, Earth Science Division, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Towards Low-Cost Permanent Space-Borne Observation of the Geomagnetic Field and Ionospheric Environment (175918)
Gauthier Hulot1, Jean-Michel Leger2, Pierre Vigneron3, Thomas Jager4, Francois Bertrand4, Pierdavide Coïsson5, Elvira Astafyeva6 and Linda Tomasini7, (1)Université Paris Cité, Institut de physique du globe de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France, (2)CEA-LETI, Grenoble, France, (3)Université de Paris, Institut de physique du globe de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France, (4)CEA-Léti, Université Grenoble Alpes, MINATEC, Grenoble, France, (5)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, UMR 7154 CNRS/INSU, Paris, France, (6)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (7)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France
ISINGLASS campaign multi point sensors and data integration (177333)
Robert Clayton, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Space and Atmospheric Instrumentation Lab, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, Kristina A Lynch, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, Robert Michell, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Donald L Hampton, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Marilia Samara, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Matthew D Zettergren, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, David L Hysell, Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States and Marc Lessard, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
The Cubesat Radiometer Radio Frequency Interference Technology Validation (CubeRRT) Mission (181544)
Sidharth Misra1, Joel T Johnson2, Christopher Ball2, Chi-Chih Chen3, Graeme Smith3, Christa McKelvey3, Mark Andrews3, Andrew O'Brien4, Jonathon Kocz1, Robert Jarnot1, Shannon Thomas Brown5, Jeffrey R. Piepmeier6, Jared Lucey6, Lynn R Miles7, Damon Bradley7 and Priscilla Naseem Mohammed-Tano7, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (2)The Ohio State University, ElectroScience Laboratory, Columbus, United States, (3)Ohio State University Main Campus, Department of Electrical and Computer Enginneering, Columbus, OH, United States, (4)Ohio State University Main Campus, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Columbus, OH, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
ExoDyn: A Cube-Satellite Constellation for the In-situ Measurement of Upper Atmospheric Composition (185311)
Derek Gardner1, Susan M Nossal2, Lara Waldrop3, Edwin J Mierkiewicz4, Sarah Jones5, Nikolaos Paschalidis6, John Bellardo7, Alan Nonaka7, Michael P Hickey8, Robert B Kerr9 and John Noto10, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (2)Univ Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, (4)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)NASA/GSFC-Heliophysics Sci, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States, (8)Embry Riddle Aeronautical Univ, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, (9)Computational Physics Inc., Lowell, MA, United States, (10)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Trade-space Analysis for Constellations (190005)
Jacqueline Le Moigne1, Philip Dabney1, Olivier L de Weck2, Veronica Foreman3, Paul Grogan4, Matthew P Holland1, Steven P. Hughes1 and Sreeja Nag5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, (3)Massachusetts Inst of Tech, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, United States, (5)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute Moffett Field, Moffett Field, United States
Distributed Acquisition for Geomagnetic Research (DAGR) for SmallSats (192109)
Eftyhia Zesta, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Enabling High Spectral Resolution Thermal Imaging from CubeSat and MicroSatellite Platforms Using Uncooled Microbolometers and a Fabry-Perot interferometer (192189)
Robert Wright1, Paul G Lucey1, Sarah Crites2, Harold Garbeil3, Mark Wood3, Eric J Pilger4, Casey Honniball3 and Andrea Gabrieli5, (1)Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, United States, (2)JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan, (3)Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, HI, United States, (4)University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, United States, (5)Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States
Measuring Earth's Radiation Imbalance using Cubesat Constellations (192503)
Sasha Courtade, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, Thomas J Immel, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Daniel Feldman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Steven R Lorentz, L-1 Standards and Technology, Inc., Manassas, VA, United States, Lars P Dyrud, Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, United States and William Drew Collins, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science, Berkeley, CA, United States
The SPectral Ocean Color (SPOC) Small Satellite Mission: From Payload to Ground Station Development and Everything in Between (192793)
David L Cotten and Sergio Bernardes, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
Remote Sensing of Precipitation from 6U-Class Small Satellite Constellations: Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems Technology Demonstration (TEMPEST-D) (193360)
Steven C Reising1, Todd Gaier2, Christian Kummerow3, V. Chandrasekar4, Sharmila Padmanabhan2, Boon Lim2, Cate Heneghan2, Wesley K Berg3, Jonathan P Olson5, Shannon Thomas Brown6, John Carvo7 and Matthew Pallas7, (1)Colorado State University, Microwave Systems Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)Blue Canyon Technologies, Boulder, CO, United States
TEMPEST-D MM-Wave Radiometer (197782)
Sharmila Padmanabhan1, Todd Gaier1, Steven C Reising2, Boon Lim3, Robert Alan Stachnik4, Robert Jarnot5, Wesley K Berg6, Christian Kummerow7 and V Chandrasekar8, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (6)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (7)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (8)Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, United States
Simulating 3D Spacecraft Constellations for Low Frequency Radio Imaging (196805)
Alexander Michael Hegedus1, Nikta Amiri2, Joseph Lazio3, Konstantin Belov2 and Justin Christophe Kasper4, (1)Lunasonde Inc., Science, Tucson, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Electron Microburst Observation with Formation Flying Nonosats (197093)
Jaejin Lee1, Young-Sil Kwak2, Jaeheung Park1, Junga Hwang2, Youngsook Lee2 and Jongdae Sohn1, (1)KASI Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, South Korea, (2)KASI Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South)
Signals of Opportunity Earth Reflectometry (SoOp-ER): Enabling new microwave observations from small satellites (197287)
James L Garrison1, Jeffrey R. Piepmeier2, Rashmi Shah3, Yao-cheng Lin4, Cornelis F Du Toit2, Manuel Alejandro Vega2 and Joseph J Knuble5, (1)Purdue University, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Connecting the Sun and Earth: Field ALigned Connections Constellation (198440)
Russell Stoneback, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States
VHF SoOp (Signal of Opportunity) Technology Demonstration for Soil Moisture Measurement Using Microwave Hydraulic Boom Truck Platform (199245)
Alicia T Joseph1, Manohar Deshpande2, Lynn Miles1 and Peggy E O'Neill1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
PRE-LAUNCH CALIBRATION AND PERFORMANCE STUDY OF THE POLARCUBE 3U TEMPERATURE SOUNDING RADIOMETER MISSION (199296)
Lavanya Periasamy1, Albin John Gasiewski2, Brian T Sanders3, Chris Rouw2, Glenda Alvarenga3 and David W Gallaher4, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, Electrical Computer and Energy Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Colorado Boulder, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO, United States

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