Presentation Type
Paper (supporting PowerPoints may be added as Additional Files)
Location
Henderson Welcome Center
Start Date
17-11-2016 2:00 PM
Abstract
Widespread use of massive data and increasing reliance on spaceborne infrastructure are two of the emerging megatrends of the early 21st century. However, both come with liabilities: movement and processing of large data volumes is very expensive, and reliance on spaceborne infrastructure adds risk that problems in the still incompletely-understood space domain might cause work disruptions.
ExoAnalytic proposes the use of Space Analysis and Research Centers (SpARCs) as a way to begin addressing both these issues. A SpARC is a facility which integrates volumes of data collected on satellites, centrally analyzes it, and makes available resulting useful information. The SpARC serves as a customer clearinghouse and a home for informed R&D centered around using data streams to extract useful information while limiting resources spent on moving vast data volumes. Accordingly, a SpARC would possess a systems-oriented research arm as well as a service-oriented customer arm. Housing these functions together matures both in tandem as institutional knowledge and experience related to the still-burgeoning SSA domain grows.
ExoAnalytic has developed an in-depth concept for a commercial SpARC, to interface among and provide information to government, commercial, and academic users, and is working to stand up an internal proto-SpARC, followed by one or more operational SpARCs customized for customer needs.
In a future where research-derived knowledge of the space domain may grow as rapidly as business-driven utilization of the domain, it is important to have institutional constructs which are specifically designed to serve both needs. A SpARC is uniquely suited to this purpose.
Area of Interest
Space Situational Awareness
Biographies
PowerPoint (PDF format)
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Aerospace Engineering Commons, Business Intelligence Commons, Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations Commons, Systems Engineering Commons
Space Analysis and Research Centers (SpARCs) for SSA Data and Analytics
Henderson Welcome Center
Widespread use of massive data and increasing reliance on spaceborne infrastructure are two of the emerging megatrends of the early 21st century. However, both come with liabilities: movement and processing of large data volumes is very expensive, and reliance on spaceborne infrastructure adds risk that problems in the still incompletely-understood space domain might cause work disruptions.
ExoAnalytic proposes the use of Space Analysis and Research Centers (SpARCs) as a way to begin addressing both these issues. A SpARC is a facility which integrates volumes of data collected on satellites, centrally analyzes it, and makes available resulting useful information. The SpARC serves as a customer clearinghouse and a home for informed R&D centered around using data streams to extract useful information while limiting resources spent on moving vast data volumes. Accordingly, a SpARC would possess a systems-oriented research arm as well as a service-oriented customer arm. Housing these functions together matures both in tandem as institutional knowledge and experience related to the still-burgeoning SSA domain grows.
ExoAnalytic has developed an in-depth concept for a commercial SpARC, to interface among and provide information to government, commercial, and academic users, and is working to stand up an internal proto-SpARC, followed by one or more operational SpARCs customized for customer needs.
In a future where research-derived knowledge of the space domain may grow as rapidly as business-driven utilization of the domain, it is important to have institutional constructs which are specifically designed to serve both needs. A SpARC is uniquely suited to this purpose.
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