Increasing Mission Science Return Through Use of Spacecraft Autonomy and Sensor Webs: A Volcanology Example

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Dec 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006agufmin52a..01d&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2006, abstract #IN52A-01

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6219 Io, 6297 Instruments And Techniques, 8419 Volcano Monitoring (7280), 8450 Planetary Volcanism (5480, 6063, 8148), 8485 Remote Sensing Of Volcanoes

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Mission science return is increased through use of onboard autonomy, and using disparate assets integrated into an autonomously-operating sensor web that can re-task these assets to rapidly obtain additional data. Software on spacecraft has been used to analyse data to detect dynamic events of high interest, such as on- going volcanic activity. This capability has been successfully demonstrated by the NASA New Millennium Program Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment (ASE), on the Earth Observing 1 spacecraft in Earth-orbit [1-2]. The potential now exists for eruption parameters to be quantified onboard a spacecraft, using models that relate thermal emission to volumetric eruption rate. This promises a notification not only of on-going activity, but also the magnitude of the event, within a few hours of the original observation, a process that normally takes weeks. ASE/EO-1 is part of the JPL Volcano Sensor Web [3]. This autonomous system collates information of volcanic activity from numerous assets and retasks EO-1 to obtain observations as soon as practicable. The use of a ground-based planner allows rapid insertion or replacement of new observations, with no human intervention. Endusers are notified automatically by email. Spacecraft autonomy, involving automatic fault detection and mitigation, onboard processing of data, and replanning of observations, allows mission operations to break free from pre-ordained operations sequencing, necessary for studying dynamic volcanic processes on other bodies in the Solar System (e.g., Io and Enceladus). Onboard processing allows quantification of dynamic processes, improving both science content per returned byte and optimization of subsequent resource use. This work was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory-California Institute of Technology, under contract to NASA. [1] Chien, S. et al. (2004) The EO-1 Autonomous Science Agent, Proceedings of the 2004 Conferences on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS), New York City, USA, July 2004. [2] Davies, A. G. et al. (2006) Monitoring active volcanism with the Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment (ASE) on EO-1, RSE, 101, 427-446. [3] Davies, A. G. et al., (2006) Sensor Web enables rapid response to volcanic activity, Eos, 87, 1, 1&5.

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