SOURCES SOUGHT
A -- SCIENTIFIC SERVICES AND RELATED SUPPORT FOR AIRBORNE TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPER (ATM) EXPERIMENTS
- Notice Date
- 1/28/2003
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210.I, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- RFP5-10112-GBC
- Archive Date
- 1/28/2004
- Point of Contact
- Andrew S Dennis, Contract Specialist, Phone (757) 824-1066, Fax (757) 824-1974, Email asdennis@pop200.gsfc.nasa.gov - James R. Dolan, Contracting Officer, Phone (757) 824-2587, Fax (757) 824-1974, Email James.R.Dolan.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
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Email your questions to Andrew S Dennis
(asdennis@pop200.gsfc.nasa.gov)
- Description
- THIS IS A SOURCES SOUGHT SYNOPSIS ONLY. Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Wallops Flight Facility (WFF), is seeking qualified sources capable of performing the research, development, verification, and transfer of advanced airborne remote sensing and other space and earth related technologies in support of various program areas including Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM), Ocean Surface Metric Measurements, and Global Carbon Cycle Studies. It is anticipated that performance will be for five years, commencing on December 1, 2003. The ATM, and its preceding flying laser laboratory version, the Airborne Oceanographic Lidar (AOL), have been utilized as research tools to demonstrate the feasibility of performing various tasks in the areas of airborne lidar applications for remote sensing of terrain information to government agencies needing the technology. The ATM project will require the following types of research efforts, including mission planning, instrument development, calibration, and operation as well as analytical support in these areas to provide ice and terrain mapping data in support of the program: measurements of glacier and ice sheet topography in remote areas of the arctic including Greenland, the Canadian archipelago, Svalbard, and Alaska as well as tasks that may evolve to survey portions of Antarctica; airborne coastal mapping including surveying of large tracks of beaches extending around most of CONUS and additional coastal surveys in other areas of the world that may become of interest as a result of changing focus in earth science programs; measurement of sea ice topography and freeboard including the development of methods to associate the topographic and freeboard measurements with associated sea ice thickness and subsurface morphology; mapping of other areas of geologic interest in support of earth science investigations such as volcanic features of Iceland or other sites including regions of subsidence that may result from programmatic collaboration with investigators from various institutions; high density lidar measurement of oceanic wave fields including methods to mitigate problems associated with mixed returns from the ocean surface and volume; and development of techniques for validation and calibration of Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) satellite-derived glacier, ice sheet, and sea ice topography using selected high density surveys of targets acquired with the ATM both historically and during the life of the altimeter satellite. The measurement of the glaciers, ice sheets, and coastal areas will all involve the capability to repeat flight lines over the targets to establish net changes in surface morphology and height related to regional climate change (ice) and coastal processes (coastline). These activities involve the high accuracy application of DoD's Satellite-based Global Positioning System (GPS) to derive precise aircraft trajectories essential for determination of individual laser spot elevations. The ice surface measurements in particular involve large separation distances between the location of the staging airport and the survey sites, sometimes in excess of 1,000 KM. It is generally not practical to place fixed GPS ground stations within or near the location of the remote sections of ice being surveyed. In addition, accurate knowledge of aircraft attitude is essential to determination of individual laser spot elevations. The ATM program has generally relied on the use of aircraft inertial navigation systems (INS) of various types to satisfy this requirement. Techniques to determine biases associated between the INS and ATM mounting are essential to the accurate application of the INS attitude measurements to the determination of individual laser spot elevations. WFF anticipates the negotiation of a "performance based" contract for these services. All interested sources are encouraged to submit information that supports their ability to perform and successfully complete the required services to NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) , Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) , Attn: Andrew S. Dennis, Code 210.W, Wallops Island, VA 23337, telephone 757-824-1066, fax 757-824-1974, E-Mail address: Andrew.S.Dennis@nasa.gov, within 17 days from the date of this publication. This sources sought synopsis is provided to assure inclusion of interested firms on the eventual solicitation source list and should not be seen as a formal solicitation document from which a contract will be awarded. A formal synopsis of this procurement will be published electronically and in the Commerce Business Daily, pursuant to FAR 5.2. The solicitation and any documents related to this procurement will be available over the Internet -these documents will reside on the World-wide Web (WWW) server which may be accessed using client browsers, such as MOSAIC or NETSCAPE. It is the offeror's responsibility to monitor this site for solicitation release. Potential offerors will be responsible for downloading their own copy of the solicitation. Electronic versions of the documents will be provided on the World Wide Web at http://genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/procure.htm , and by anonymous ftp to genesis.gsfc.nasa.gov/public/web/solicita. *****
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