Summary

SSAI is responsible for ingesting, storing, organizing, and maintaining data in numerous and varied data systems. We understand the criticality of information integrity and cyber security to the success of our customers’ missions. Thus, we provide advanced information technology solutions to meet the needs of our customers and their end users, by designing innovative, custom solutions to ensure that their data is accurate, available, accessible, and protected.

Major Accomplishments

SSAI Scientists Develop the Capability to Process Data Directly Broadcast to Ground Receiving Stations from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI).

The danger posed by ash from volcanic eruptions is not limited to areas that get covered with it. Ash that is thrown higher into the atmosphere, sometimes even into the stratosphere, poses a severe risk to planes by clogging (and potentially shutting down) engines and making it impossible to see out of deeply pitted windshields.

To monitor ash from volcanic eruptions, SSAI scientists worked with NASA colleagues to develop the capability to process data directly broadcast to ground receiving stations from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI). Although principally designed to measure and monitor the ozone layer, UV measurements from these instruments are also used to produce the Aerosol Index, which is a product designed to detect, measure, and track SO2 and volcanic ash emissions.