NASA OPEN MISSION CONTROL TECHNOLOGIES (MCT)
Open MCT can be adapted for planning and operations of any system that produces telemetry. While the framework is developed to support space missions, its core concepts are not unique to that domain. It can display streaming and historical data, imagery, timelines, procedures, and other data visualizations in one place.
Run Your Mission
Open MCT is a next-generation mission operations data visualization framework. Web-based, for desktop and mobile.
About SPICE
NASA's Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF) offers NASA flight projects and NASA funded researchers the "SPICE" (Spacecraft, Planet, Instrument, C-matrix, Events) observation geometry information system to assist scientists in planning and interpreting scientific observations from space-based instruments aboard robotic planetary spacecraft. SPICE is also used in support of engineering tasks associated with these missions. While planetary missions were the original focus, today SPICE is also used on some heliophysics and earth science missions.
The SPICE system is freely available to space agencies, scientists and engineers around the globe, subject to the provisions explained on the Support and Rules web pages. It is also available to the general public with the caveat that support from NAIF is VERY LIMITED.
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About JMARS
About JMARS
JMARS is a geospatial information system (GIS) developed by ASU's Mars Space Flight Facility to provide mission planning and data-analysis tools to NASA scientists, instrument team members, students of all ages and the general public. JMARS has been available to the public since 2003. It is used in over 100 countries and has over 6,000 active users.
Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers (ISIS)
About Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers (ISIS)
Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers (ISIS) is free and open-source software (FOSS) developed by the USGS Astrogeology Science Center for NASA and the planetary community. ISIS is a fundamental tool for processing raw archival data into analysis ready products and includes standard image processing tools such as contrast, stretch, image algebra, filters, and statistical analysis. However, ISIS's key feature is the ability to place different types of data in the correct cartographic locations on extraterrestrial bodies. The cartographically located data can then be used to create archives, topographic or cartographic maps, digital elevation models, and other scientific products.
Supporting Planetary Space Missions
ISIS is a valuable resource for planetary missions that require systematic data processing, products for planning, and research and analysis of derived data products. Support for a mission is added to ISIS by creating sensor models, tools for ingesting mission-specific ancillary data, and optional tools for calibrating mission data. Once a mission is supported, data from that mission can be used with the full suite of processing and analysis tools in ISIS. ISIS supports data from NASA and International spacecraft missions including Lunar Orbiter, Apollo, Voyager, Mariner 10, Viking, Galileo, Magellan, Clementine, Mars Global Surveyor, Cassini, Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MESSENGER, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Chandrayaan, Dawn, Kaguya, and New Horizons.
QGIS (Geograhic Information system)
About QGIS
QGIS, according to its website, is “a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) licensed under the GNU General Public License.” To draw an analogy, it is to making maps what Adobe Photoshop is to editing images. It gives you the ability to create maps from scratch or from imported data, or modify and add to existing maps. The software is set up so that each imported map or map feature is a “layer.” Layers can be made of point locations, background images, polygons such as country borders, or more complex types of vector data, like WMS maps or ESRI shapefiles. While QGIS can manipulate maps, it cannot create data. Users must do that themselves, by manually creating a table of information or (more commonly) importing data from the Web or other sources.
Supporting Open Source Cartography
QGIS is free, open-source desktop GIS software. It runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
QGIS is a full-fledged desktop GIS. It reads an writes nearly all geospatial data formats, enables amazingly dynamic cartography, and provides a robust set of processing and analytical tools. Additional functionality is provided by over 300 plugins, which can be installed with just a few clicks. For more details, see the QGIS website.
QGIS is developed by contributors from around the world who are constantly adding new features and improving the program. New versions of QGIS are released every four months. The changelog is a great way of learning about the latest features.