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A NASA SeaDAS Demonstration workshop, sponsored by the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Applied Sciences DEVELOP Program, was held on Wednesday, July 23,2008. Learn more about the DEVELOP program or view the SeaDAS demonstration agenda.
NASA produces research results, such as observations from
satellites, predictions from models, and knowledge from scientific
research. These research results have the potential to serve society
beyond their intended purpose of answering pressing Earth system
science questions.
NASA’s Applied Sciences Program
systematically evaluates the potential of these research results to
serve society by conducting projects with regional and national scale
operational partners. The partners have the responsibility to provide
information to decision makers for a specific aspect of the Earth
system. These projects address NASA’s National Applications and the
societal benefit areas under the Global Earth Observation System of
Systems (see below).
Prototyping is used in two ways in NASA’s
Applied Sciences Program. The first is in the National Applications
program. High fidelity prototypes are used to assess the incorporation
of NASA research results into a partner’s decision support systems.
This creates a prototype system that has been rigorously tested with
the partner to understand the scientific uncertainty and improved value
compared to the old method. In many cases, these completed prototypes
are adopted or adapted for use by the operational partners.
The
second falls under the Crosscutting Solutions program. Here, low
fidelity prototypes that are low cost and quickly produced are used to
evaluate the potential of a wider collection of NASA research results
to serve society. The result is an evaluation of many and varied NASA
research results for their potential to be candidates for further, more
rigorous development. The intention is to seed the community with many
creative ideas that might be beneficial to pursue at the right time and
with the right partners.