From sokhanh@asprs.org Sat Aug 21 13:55:56 2004 Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:53:28 -0400 From: "Hing, Sokhan"To: cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in Subject: ASPRS forwarding information on Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) [ Part 1, Text/PLAIN (charset: ISO-2022-JP "Latin & Japanese") 192 ] [ lines. ] [ Unable to print this part. ] [ The following text is in the "iso-2022-jp" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] The following information has been provided to us by Jim Irons of NASA. To Those Interested in the Landsat Program: Yesterday NASA released a Request for Information (RFI) on the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) The RFI consists of a cover letter, a draft solicitation, a draft instrument specification, a draft statement of work, and several additional draft requirements documents. The cover letter is available at http://intranet.asprs.org/RFIcoverletter.pdf Key excerpts from the letter can be found below. All of the RFI documents can be found at the NASA Acquisition Internet Service (NAIS) at web address http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/sol.cgi?acqid=111775#Other%2001. The documents can also be found at the LDCM web site: http://www.ldcm.nasa.gov/ The Executive Office of the President approved the release of this RFI following eight months of discussion with an interagency working group. The working group included representation from NASA, USGS, NOAA, NGA, NRO, and the NPOESS Integrated Program Office. Please note the following: ● One of the options the Government is considering is to migrate the Landsat measurements to the NPOESS as an operational measurement. This option would necessitate flying future Landsat sensors in the 828Km-altitude orbit of the NPOESS satellites with a 17-day ground track repeat period. This would be a change from the 705 Km, 16-day repeat period, orbit of Landsats 4, 5, and 7. ● The instrument specification does not require thermal spectral bands consistent with the LDCM Data Specification attached to the earlier, cancelled data procurement request for proposals. ● This RFI explicitly solicits your comments (see excerpts below). Comments are due by August 26 to: Patricia Dombrowski Contracting Officer e-mail: Patricia.M.Dombrowski@nasa.gov Fax: (301) 286-0383 Please allow me to encourage your comments and response. This RFI represents the first opportunity to inform and receive feedback from the Landsat data user community, as well as industry, in many months. Your response to the options and strategies described in the RFI are critical to the future of the Landsat program. Please forgive me if you receive multiple copies of this e-mail. I am using several e-mail address lists for the sake of expediency and I know the lists overlap. Also, please share this message with any and all of your colleagues working with Landsat data. Regards, Jim Irons LDCM Project Scientist NASA Goddard Space Flight Center RFI excerpts follow: * Although a final decision on continuity options has not been made, one of the options the Government is considering as a long-term solution to ensuring Landsat data continuity is to migrate the Landsat measurement to the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) as an operational measurement. This would necessitate the measurement to be migrated to an 828km mid-morning orbit, with the earliest launch predicted with a Landsat imager to be at the end of calendar year 2009. * The government may also consider an earlier stand-alone mission to minimize any risk to Landsat data continuity. * Taking these factors into consideration, NASA is hereby soliciting innovative approaches for development and incorporation of a new Operational Land Imager (which the government has currently labeled OLI) for the NPOESS in the event the government decides to procure OLI instrument(s) for flight on NPOESS. * NASA is also soliciting inventive approaches for a potential stand-alone mission solution to minimize risk to Landsat data continuity. * The government is also interested in potential source's perspectives on the benefits of, or alternatives to, utilization of the Advanced Landsat Imager (ALI) technology developed by NASA/GSFC for Earth Observer-1 mission recognizing the timeliness requirements associated with this mission. * Data specifications describing characteristics of Landsat data, a potential OLI specification and a potential Statement of Work (SOW) are attached for reference purposes only. * NASA welcomes comments on the information in this call including attached documentation. * If NASA proceeds with a solicitation for either or both solutions, there may not be a draft RFP release and this will be the only opportunity to comment on the documentation listed above * All other inquires shall be submitted no later than 8/26/04 to the same point of contact. Please reference Solicitation Number NNG04064128L in any response. Point of Contact Name: Patricia Dombrowski Title: Contracting Officer Phone: (301) 286-0621 Fax: (301) 286-0383 mailto:Patricia.M.Dombrowski@nasa.gov ____________________________________________________________________________ Jim Irons TEL: (301) 614-6657 Code 923 / Biospheric Sciences Branch FAX: (301) 614-6695 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center mailto:jim@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov Greenbelt, MD 20771 ____________________________________________________________________________ 38657