Earth Science Capabilities Demonstration Project (ESCD)

ESCD is a broadly focused jointly-funded collaboration between NASA's Aeronautics and Science Mission Directorates. ESCD targets maturation of UAV capabilities so that they can eventually be used routinely for suborbital Earth observation and in situ sensing applications. The project seeks to develop, integrate, and demonstrate in flight a progressively maturing set of capabilities that make unpiloted atmospheric vehicles useful and valuable for suborbital Earth science activities.

Earth Science Technology Conference 2006

A number of technology development efforts within the NASA Airborne Science Program were recently featured during two sessions at the 2006 Earth Science Technology Conference in College Park , MD. Follow the link below to view the abstracts and presentations from these sessions.

• http://www.esto.nasa.gov/conferences/ESTC2006/sessions.html