Administrator

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Organizational Structure
Administrator
Advisory NASA Advisory Council Aerospace
Safety Advisory Panel
Inspector General
Chief Safety Mission Assurance Officer
Chief of Staff
Deputy Administrator (Chief Operating Officer)
Staff ADA Systems Integration Chief
Scientist Chief Medical Officer Director of
Advanced Planning
Chief Education Officer
MISSION
Exploration Systems
Space Operations
Aeronautics Research
Science
MISSION SUPPORT
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Information Officer
Chief Engineer
General Council
Institutions Management
Chief of Strategic Communications
Independent Technical Authority
Procurement Small and Disadvantaged
Business Utilization
Human Resources Institutional and Corporate
Mgmt. Equal Opportunity Programs Security
Mgmt and Safeguards
Public Affairs Legislative Affairs External
Relations
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Organizational Structure
Exploration Systems
Space Operations
Aeronautics Research
Science
Universe Solar System Earth-Sun System -
Missions - Data systems - Research - Applied
science
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Common Elements Among Projects

• Tangible, substantial, essential and
  sustainable use of NASA observations and/or
  models to enhance decision support processes
• Partnerships with user organizations
• Monitor progress through verification, validation
  and benchmarking
• Draw upon, and contribute to, existing data
  access mechanisms
• Draw upon, and contribute to, global
  observational systems
• Identification of observations/measurements for
  transfer to operational systems
• Commitment to partners

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Integrated System Solutions
Earth Science Models

• Land
• Oceans
• Atmosphere
• Coupled

Decision Support Tools
Data

• Assessments
• Decision-Support Systems
• Scenario Analysis

Earth Observatories

• Satellite
• Airborne
• In Situ

Agencies with Decision Support tools
NASA and Research Partners
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Input merged continental-scale NDVI time-series,
elevation, soils, and biological field data
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Output landscape-scale predictive maps of
invasive species distributions
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High-speed networking interconnects
NASA/USGScluster computer mass storage
resources
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Invasive Species Summary
1. Current project observations and objectives 2.
Earth Science instruments 3. Earth science
models 4. Decision support tools and processes
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• New Starts in FY05 - Decisions
• Invasive Species
• Jeff Morisette (GSFC) NASA/NPS Fire Ecology
  and Invasive Species
• - Integrate ISFS capabilities into a DST for NPS

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More Information
Applied Sciences Program
http//science.hq.nasa.gov/earth-sun/applications/
index.html
Application Implementation Working Group
http//aiwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Ed Sheffner 202-358-0239 esheffne_at_hq.nasa.gov