Graduated Projects
35 projects graduated from ESTO funding between April 2011 and April 2012

Principal Investigator	Institution	Project Title
Abshire	Goddard Space Flight Center	CO2 Laser Sounder for ASCENDS Mission - Technology Development and Airborne Demonstration
Blair	Goddard Space Flight Center	LVIS - Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor
Clune	Goddard Space Flight Center	Automated Tracking of Earth Science Phenomena for Ingest into a Moving Object Database to Enable Systematic Studies
Diner	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Shortwave infrared polarimetric imager for aerosol and cloud remote sensing
Dobler	ITT Industries, Space Systems Division	Laser Remote Sensing of O2 for Determination of CO2 Mixing Ratio and Sensing of Climate Species
Donnellan	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	QuakeSim: Increasing Accessibility and Utility of Spaceborne and Ground-based Earthquake Fault Data
Folkner	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Laser Ranging Frequency Stabilization Subsystem for GRACE II
French	USC Information Sciences Institute	Autonomous On-Board Processing for Sensor Systems (A-OPSS) Technology Transition for HyspIRI
Fu	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Ka-band SAR interferometry studies for the SWOT mission
Hall	The Aerospace Corporation	Mineral and Gas Identification Using a High-Performance Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometer
Heaps	Goddard Space Flight Center	Novel Laser Approach for Precision CO2 Column Measurement
Kavaya	Langley Research Center	Airborne Demonstration of an Autonomous Operation Coherent Doppler Lidar that is a Precursor to a Space-Based Wind Profiling Instrument
Koch	Langley Research Center	Showing the Utility of the Doppler Aerosol Wind Lidar (DAWN) for Wind Energy Applications
Kopp	University of Colorado/LASP	A Hyperspectral Imager to Meet CLARREO Goals of High Absolute Accuracy and On-Orbit SI Traceability
Krainak	Goddard Space Flight Center	Ultra-sensitive near-infrared optical receiver using avalanche photodiodes
Krainak	Goddard Space Flight Center	Quantum Well Multiplier Infrared Photodetectors
Lambrigtsen	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	GeoSTAR Technology Development and Risk Reduction for PATH
McClain	Goddard Space Flight Center	Development of an Ocean Radiometer for Carbon Assessment (ORCA) Prototype
Meehan	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	A GNSS RF ASIC for Digital Beamforming Applications
Mlynczak	Langley Research Center	Far-Infrared Extended Blocked Impurity Band (FIREBIB) Detectors Optimized for Earth Radiance Measurements
Mlynczak	Langley Research Center	Calibrated Observations of Radiance Spectra from the Atmosphere in the far-InfraRed - CORSAIR
Neil	Langley Research Center	Infrared Correlation Radiometer Fabrication and Characterization as Applied to the GEO-CAPE Decadal Survey Mission
Nemani	Ames Research Center	Anomaly Detection and Analysis Framework for Terrestrial Observation and Prediction System (TOPS)
Nemani	Ames Research Center	Prototyping High-End Computing On-demand Model Execution Environment
Papapolymerou	Georgia Institute of Technology	Development of Lightweight, 3-D Integrated X-Band Radar Antenna Using SiGe Chips and RF MEMS Circuits For Snow Accumulation Measurements
Peters-Lidard	Goddard Space Flight Center	Integration of Data Assimilation, Stochastic Optimization and Uncertainty Modeling within NASA Land Information System (LIS)
Phillips	Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies	CLASS Instrument Technology Maturation for ASCENDS
Pingree	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	On-Board Processing to Optimize the MSPI Imaging System for ACE
Reising	Colorado State University	Advanced Component Development to Enable Low-Mass, Low-Power High-Frequency Radiometers for Coastal Wet-Tropospheric Correction on SWOT
Revercomb	University of Wisconsin-Madison	A New Class of Advanced Accuracy Satellite Instrumentation (AASI) for the CLARREO Mission
Rider	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	In-Pixel Digitization Read Out Integrated Circuit for the Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Mission
Sander	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Panchromatic Fourier Transform Spectrometer (PanFTS) Instrument for the Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Mission
Talabac	Goddard Space Flight Center	End-to-End Design and Objective Evaluation of Sensor Web Modeling and Data Assimilation System Architectures: Phase II
Taylor	Composite Technology Development, Inc.	Large Aperture, Solid Surface Deployable Reflector
Tucker	Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.	Development and Demonstration of an Optical Autocovariance Direct Detection Wind Lidar (OAWL)

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