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We have developed several computational case studies based on various NASA science areas for university students in computer science, computer engineering, and applied mathematics. These case studies are available on this page. We are working on developing more of such case studies. If you are a professor interested in using these case studies, or who has already used them in your classes, we would like to hear from you. In particular, we would like to have the opportunity to evaluate your students' knowledge of specific NASA science areas and computational algorithms before and after they work on these case studies. Please contact us for more information. Thanks for using enCOMPASS!


NASA Computational Case Studies:




Planetary Science


  1. Where is My Moon?


    NASA Science Application:     Planetary sciences, astronomy, satellite search, Pluto, Hubble Space Telescope, Dawn mission, asteroid Vesta.
    Computational Algorithms: Denoising, image registration, filtering, resistant mean.
    Data Files: j9l601m7q_drz.fits, j9l601m9q_drz.fits, j9l601mcq_drz.fits, j9l601meq_drz.fits.

    Appeared in IEEE's Computing in Science and Engineering, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 92-99, November/December 2014, doi link.

  2. Modeling Planetary Magnetic and Gravitational Fields


    NASA Science Application:     Planetary science, geomagnetism, gravitation
    Computational Algorithms: Modeling, data fitting, linear algebra, spherical harmonic analysis.
    Data Files: magsat-data.dat.

    Appeared in IEEE's Computing in Science and Engineering, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 73-79, July/August 2014, doi link.

  3. The Orbit of Comet ISON


    NASA Science Application:     Planetary science, celestial mechanics, comet ISON
    Computational Algorithms: Modeling, time and coordinate conversion
    Data Files: None.

  4. Characterizing Moving Particles


    NASA Science Application:     Planetary sciences, particle characterization.
    Computational Algorithms: (De)Convolution , (inverse) Fourier transform, image deblurring.
    Data Files: SIMPBYTSCL15.tiff, bImage.tiff.

    Appeared in IEEE's Computing in Science and Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 76-78, Nov./Dec. 2011, doi link.


Astrophysics


  1. Spectral Energy Distribution Fitting


    NASA Science Application:     Astrophysics, WISE mission, Sky Catalogs, Spectral Energy Distribution (SED).
    Computational Algorithms: Optimization, modeling, interpolation.
    Data Files: templates.zip, sdssRegion.csv , HATLAS_cat.dat, and wise2massRegion.txt.

    Appeared in IEEE's Computing in Science and Engineering, Vol. 19, No. 6, pp. 54-63, November/December 2017, doi link.


  2. Light a Single Candle: Studying Supernovae


    NASA Science Application:     Astrophysics, studying supernovae.
    Computational Algorithms: Modeling, data fitting, ordinary differential equations, optimization.
    Data Files: are available here.

    Appeared in IEEE's Computing in Science and Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 90-96, March/April 2012, doi link.

  3. Golomb Rulers and Their Applications


    NASA Science Application:     Astrophysics, Earth Sciences, apertures, antennas.
    Computational Algorithms: Golomb rulers, Golomb rectangles, optimization algorithms, graceful graphs.
    Data Files: hubble.tiff.

    Appeared in IEEE's Computing in Science and Engineering, Vol. 18, No. 6, pp. 58-62, November/December 2016, doi link.



Earth Sciences


  1. Hyperspectral Data Processing: Cryospheric Change Detection


    NASA Science Application:     Earth Sciences, remote sensing, hyperspectral data processing.
    Computational Algorithms: Clustering, classification, spectral analysis, optimization algorithms.
    Data Files: b_8.tiff, b_21.tiff, b_31.tiff, b_51.tiff, b_150.tiff, and hyp_irradiance.txt.

    Appeared in IEEE's Computing in Science and Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 92-97, July/August 2012, doi link.


  2. SAR Data Processing: Ground-Range Projection


    NASA Science Application:     Earth Sciences, remote sensing, Radar and SAR data processing.
    Computational Algorithms: Projection and interpolation.
    Data Files: singleLookAvg.mat (Matlab data file)., and singleLookAvg.txt (Text data file).

    Appeared in IEEE's Computing in Science and Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 92-95 , Nov./Dec. 2013, doi link.



Navigation and Control


  1. The Flight of Friendship 7


    NASA Science Application:     Astrodynamics, navigation, celestial mechanics, Project Mercury, Friendship 7.
    Computational Algorithms: Modeling, time and coordinate conversions, root finding.
    Data Files: None.

    Appeared in IEEE's Computing in Science and Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 72-78, March/April 2013, doi link.


Heliophysics


  1. Under development.


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