Keywords:science activity planning; spatial databases; distributed operations; virtual field testing; agile development
Publisher:Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2005.
Citation:2005 IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Conference, Hawaii, October 10-12, 2005
Abstract:
The Science Activity Planner (SAP) is the science planning tool used for the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission. This paper begins with an overview of the software developed for MER and how it was used for science downlink analysis and activity planning.