NASA brings online toolkit to boost satellite data use
New Delhi : In an attempt to make best use of data collected from satellite, NASA space agency has launched an online toolkit which will certainly help users to find, analyse and utilise the most relevant satellite data for research, business projects or conservation purposes. The “Remote Sensing Toolkit” provides a simple system that quickly identifies relevant sources based on user input, NASA stated.
NASA toolkit is designed to help users search for data, as well as ready-to-use tools and decode to build new tools. “This new tool makes finding and using NASA satellite data easier than ever before, and we hope it sparks innovation among the entrepreneurial community and leads to further commercialisation of NASA technology and benefits people across the world,” said Daniel Lockney, NASA’s Technology Transfer programme executive Lockney said “Our mission to bring NASA technology down to Earth is expanding with the release of this remote sensing toolkit.”
Each year, NASA collects petabytes of data through its collection of Earth observation satellites. The variety of open source tools created to access, analyse and utilise the data from these satellites is common to millions of science users, but accessing and utilising this data remains daunting for many potential commercial users. For example, NASA’s remote-sensing data and tools are available across dozens of places.
Sources confirmed that NASA Technology Transfer programme reviewed more than 50 websites and found that no source offer a comprehensive collection of information or a single access point to begin a probe. Therefore, the space agency decided to introduce the Remote Sensing Toolkit. “Remote Sensing Toolkit will help grow the number of users who put NASA’s free and open data archive to work for people,” said Kevin Murphy of NASA’s Earth Science Division in Washington.
