(AGENPARL) – mer 09 agosto 2023 August 09, 2023 
RELEASE 23-086
*NASA Software Catalog Offers Free Programs for Earth Science, More*
Autonomous systems need to be reliable, so NASA puts the code it develops
through rigorous testing, like this Artemis I launch countdown training
simulation, to avoid potential failures.
*/Credits: NASA/*
Each year, NASA scientists, engineers, and developers create software
packages to manage space missions, test spacecraft, and analyze the petabytes
of data produced by agency research satellites. As the agency innovates for
the benefit of humanity, many of these programs are now downloadable and free
of charge through NASA’s Software Catalog.
The 2023-2024 NASA Software Catalog makes a variety of NASA programs
available for download.
*/Credits: NASA/*
The 2023-2024 Software Catalog [1] contains more than 1,000 programs,
including dozens of new packages added this year.
Among the 15 different categories of NASA software available through the
catalog is environmental science. Whether it means helping farmers navigate
crop-destroying droughts [2], tracking deadly storms such as hurricanes [3]
and tornadoes, or mapping floods, fires, and more [4], NASA’s fleet of
Earth-observation satellites allows an “eye-in-the-sky” advantage to spot
events, features, and long-term trends on our ever-changing planet.
“By making our innovations available to the public, we fulfill our goal of
helping NASA’s research and technology development find new uses beyond space
exploration,” said Daniel Lockney, program executive for the agency’s
Technology Transfer program at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “We’re
proud to make NASA software more accessible through our easy-to-use website,
and we are dedicated to continuing this ‘customer-service’ approach to
software release.”
Among the environmental science software included in the catalog are:
* A popular modeling software that [5] provides values for atmospheric
parameters, such as temperature and winds, for any month and location in
Earth’s atmosphere
* A geospatial system [6] for disaster response using low-cost hardware such
as digital cameras or cellphones
* A cloud-based toolkit that allows collaboration among researchers in Earth
science [7]
* An algorithm to accurately forecast lighting strikes [8]
* A framework that combines maps with satellite-based rainfall estimates to
identify potential landslide hazards [9]
* A platform [10] built for interactive browsing of near-real-time satellite
imagery to help with time-critical scenarios such as wildfires or flooding
NASA scientists and software experts, who use satellite data and more to
better understand Earth, will be available to answer questions about free
agency resources at 12 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 16, during a Reddit “Ask me
Anything.” Join or follow the discussion online using the /r/AskScience
subreddit.
To complement the Software Catalog, NASA’s Technology Transfer program has
also built a Remote Sensing Toolkit [11]. The web-based set of tools helps
users find, analyze, and use the most relevant satellite data for research,
business projects, or conservation efforts.
Beyond environmental science, the catalog also includes software packages for
system testing, aeronautics, business systems and project management, data
and image processing, crew and life support, and more.
The Software Catalog is a product of NASA’s Technology Transfer program
[12], managed for the agency by STMD. NASA routinely makes improvements to
the Software Catalog website, ensuring the process is fast and easy. The
program ensures technologies developed by and for NASA are broadly available
to the public, maximizing the benefit to American taxpayers.
Access restrictions apply to some software that may be limited to use by U.S.
citizens or for U.S. government purposes only.
Review the catalog online at:
*http://software.nasa.gov* [13]
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[1] http://software.nasa.gov
[2] https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2015/ps_1.html
[3] https://spinoff.nasa.gov/global-weather-forecasting
[4] https://spinoff.nasa.gov/A-High-Tech-Farmer%E2%80%99s-Almanac-for-Everyone
[5] https://software.nasa.gov/software/MFS-32780-2
[6] https://software.nasa.gov/software/ARC-16088-1A
[7] https://software.nasa.gov/software/NPO-49145-1
[8] https://software.nasa.gov/software/MFS-33225-1
[9] https://software.nasa.gov/software/GSC-17452-1
[10] https://software.nasa.gov/software/GSC-17111-1
[11] https://software.nasa.gov/remotesensing/
[12] https://technology.nasa.gov
[13] http://software.nasa.gov