Among the needs of the Earth science customer base is flexible and affordable operations and communications with globally deployed instruments and the unpiloted vehicles that carry these instruments. The Over-the-Horizon Networks (OTH) component of ESCD is interested in maturing affordable, disruption tolerant, and network-centric communications components as well as the application-layer tools and services that accelerate the emergence of flexible and useful capabilities enabling greater productivity for researchers with science instruments on UAVs.
The overall goal is to develop sustainable capabilities for global-reach Earth science activities in a network-distributed fashion. In alignment with the overall vision for a future global Earth Observation systems-of-systems, our target is establishing a core capability by 2010 that will facilitate emergence and productive use of intelligent observation instruments and suborbital platforms.
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