Final Recommendation to NASA HQ - January, 2009

Frank,

The Standards Process Group conducted a review of a technical note from Ross Swick describing the backtrack algorithm for improving spatial search for satellite data granules of interest.

The reviews were positive and showed without a question that the algorithm description along with the reference implementation had significant benefits to NASA’s missions producing remote sensed swath data.

Based on the responses received and from additional research the TWG concludes that the Backtrack Orbit Search Algorithm demonstrates sufficient usefulness to be endorsed by the SPG as a Technical Note.

The note is posted on the SPG site at:

http://www.esdswg.org/spg/rfc/esds-rfc-010

-Rich

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 Richard Ullman, NASA GSFC, Code 586
 ES-DSWG Standards Process Group Chair

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