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AN: IN21B-1185    [Abstracts]
TI: Software and Hardware for Suborbital Telepresence: UAVs on the Web
AU: * Sorenson, C E
EM: carl.sorenson@dfrc.nasa.gov
AF: Arcata Associates, Inc., M/S 1623A, P.O. Box 273, Edwards, CA 93523 United States
AU: Freudinger, L C
EM: Lawrence.C.Freudinger@nasa.gov
AF: Test Systems Directorate NASA DFRC, M/S 1623A, P.O. Box 273, Edwards, CA 93523 United States
AU: Yarbrough, S K
EM: sky.yarbrough@dfrc.nasa.gov
AF: Analytical Services & Materials, Inc., M/S 1623I, P.O. Box 273, Edwards, CA 93523 United States
AU: Jennison, C D
EM: Chris.D.Jennison@nasa.gov
AF: Flight Projects Directorate NASA DFRC, M/S 4830A, P.O. Box 273, Edwards, CA 93523 United States
AU: Miller, M J
EM: mjm@creare.com
AF: Scientific Data Products Creare, Inc, P.O. Box 71, Hanover, NH 03755 United States
AU: Friets, E M
EM: emf@creare.com
AF: Scientific Data Products Creare, Inc, P.O. Box 71, Hanover, NH 03755 United States
AU: Blakeslee, R J
EM: rich.blakeslee@nasa.gov
AF: Earth and Planetary Science Branch NASA MSFC, NSSTC/XC11 320 Sparkman Dr., Huntsville, AL 35805 United States
AU: Mach, D M
EM: douglas.mach@msfc.nasa.gov
AF: Earth System Science Center Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, 320 Sparkman DR Room 4001, Huntsville, AL 35805 United States
AU: Bateman, M G
EM: monte.bateman@msfc.nasa.gov
AF: Universities Space Research Association NASA/MSFC, USRA/XD11 320 Sparkman Dr., Huntsville, AL 35805 United States
AU: Bailey, J C
EM: jeff.bailey@msfc.nasa.gov
AF: Raytheon ITSS, 320 Sparkman Dr., Huntsville, AL 35805 United States
AU: Hall, J M
EM: john.hall@msfc.nasa.gov
AF: Computer Sciences Corporation, 320 Sparkman Dr., Huntsville, AL 35805 United States
AB: A NASA Dryden project creating prototype sensor web tools has resulted in software and hardware for implementing network telemetry, telepresence, and other data system functions for platforms including UAVs. The Research Environment for Vehicle-Embedded Analysis on Linux (REVEAL) software is a self-configuring/verifying/documenting framework for realtime embedded and distributed data systems based on open standards XML. With interfaces for instruments, avionics, and networking, using small PC/104 hardware with one or more Iridium modems, REVEAL systems are well suited to long endurance UAVs. These systems serve as a telemetry and communications gateway for internet-based experimenters. REVEAL systems also provide traditional Earth Science platform data system services, configured by and for each experimenter in a secure manner. On the ground segment, buffering middleware enables efficient data distribution across the internet. The innovative REVEAL architecture and its use by experimenters on recent missions using NASA's ER-2 and General Atomics Altair aircraft is described.
DE: 0933 Remote sensing
DE: 0994 Instruments and techniques
DE: 1640 Remote sensing (1855)
DE: 1694 Instruments and techniques
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005