Sunday, March 5, 2017

NASA Releases Software Catalog for Public Access

NASA Releases Software Catalog | NASA



NASA has released its 2017-2018 software catalog, which offers an extensive portfolio of software products for a wide variety of technical applications, all free of charge to the public, without any royalty or copyright fees. Available in both hard copy and online, this third edition of the publication has contributions from all the agency’s centers on data processing/storage, business systems, operations, propulsion and aeronautics. While access US or US government use release restrictions apply to the majority of codes, there are a significant number of open source and general public release items and NASA has automated and updated its software release process over the last two years to ensure that it is as quick, easy and straightforward as possible.

The software catalog is a product of NASA’s Technology Transfer program, managed for the agency by STMD. The program ensures technologies developed for missions in exploration and discovery are broadly available to the public, maximizing the benefit to the nation.
For a searchable PDF of the software catalog, please visit: http://software.nasa.gov
To learn more about NASA’s Technology Transfer program, visit; http://technology.nasa.gov

Application Categories:

  • Aeronautics
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Business Systems and Project Management
  • Crew and Life Support
  • Data Servers Processing and Handling
  • Data and Image Processing
  • Design and Integration Tools
  • Electronics and Electrical Power
  • Environmental Science (Earth, Air, Space, Exoplanet)
  • Materials and Processes
  • Operations
  • Propulsion
  • Structures and Mechanisms
  • System Testing
  • Vehicle Management (Space/Air/Ground)

Release Type

  • Open Source (210 packages)
  • General Public Release (54 packages)
  • U.S. and Foreign Release (22 packages)
  • U.S. Release Only (192 packages)
  • U.S. Government Purpose Release (497 packages)

Some Potentially Useful Open Source/Public Accessible Applications:

Worldview Canvas
  • Langley Formal Methods Program • ACCoRD Conflict-Detection (CD3D)/Conflict-Resolution (CR3D) Algorithms Written in Java and C and based on the Airborne Coordinated Conflict Detection and Resolution mathematical framework, CD3D and CR3D are prototype implementations of state-based conflict-detection and conflict-resolution algorithms for a 3D airspace.

  • Extendable Uniform Remote Operations Planning Architecture (EUROPA) 2.1
    EUROPA is a general-purpose, reusable, artificial intelligence software system. The tool generates plans for performing complex activities in parallel. Functionality includes the capability of verifying that a plan satisfies all constraints.
  • Open Source at Ames - Mission Simulation ToolKit
    Mission Simulation Toolkit (MST) offers a simulation framework to support research in autonomy for remote exploration. The system allows developers to test models in a high-fidelity simulation and then evaluate system performance against a set of integrated, standardized simulations.
  • "Worldview" satellite imagery browsing and downloading tool
    Worldview is a software tool designed for interactively browsing and downloading imagery from NASA's Earth observing satellites. Building upon a set of open source mapping and user interface libraries, it provides an environment to visually discover interesting phenomena as observed by NASA satellites, then download the data for further analysis. It was originally designed to address the needs of the near real time applications community to provide relevant information for time-critical scenarios such as wildfire and flood management. As such, satellite imagery is available to be viewed in Worldview within four hours of observation, the imagery can be viewed in its highest, or native, resolution, and the imagery can be panned and zoomed rapidly through space and time to find the most relevant/cloud-free/etc information available. 
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