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2004 NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS
06.08.04 Ground Truthing Team Receives Turning Goals into Reality Award
NAS staff Ken Freeman, Ray Gilstrap, Thom Stone, Celeste Banaag, Judith Utley, and Marjory Johnson are all part of a team selected to receive a Turning Goals into Reality (TGIR) 2004 award for their work in Ground Truthing. The team conducted an experiment in June 2003, which enabled geologists at a remote field site to access Grid supercomputer facilities interactively, in order to validate and calibrate remotely sensed data in near-real-time. The process used in the Ground Truthing experiment could potentially enable astronaut scientists to ground-truth satellite imagery from the surface of Mars, obtain the results, and use them during extra-vehicular activity to pinpoint optimum areas to explore without returning to Earth to process the data from the mission.
TGIR awards acknowledge outstanding contributions and exceptional progress toward achieving the Program Goals and Objectives of the NASA Office of Aeronautics. The award will be presented at a ceremony in Washington D.C. on July 14, 2004.
This team also received a Group Achievement Award from the Director of Aeronautics at NASA's Glenn Research Center for having "successfully conducted the first attempt by a field team to ground-truth satellite instrument data in real-time using NASA's nomadic network capability that extends powerful IT resources to remote locations."
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