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NASA's Technology Transfer Programwritten by: Michael Paul MacKillip |
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posted on: Sep 17, 2019 The original article covering this topic has been edited a couple of times, I had issues with my CMS and re-designed the container for the Articles page and Blog main page. In the future I plan on using a more rigid Ruby container system on the next design. 
When it comes to API intergration I think THE most overlooked software repository on the web comes from NASA. They pretty much opened up the garage for everyone and if you didn't know about before, here you go. 
"NASA's Technology Transfer Program ensures that innovations developed for exploration and discovery are broadly available to the public, maximizing the benefit to the Nation." Forget about your Four Square Apps and your Facebook SDK's and your Google Analytics, those were just foundation for something a little more interesting, a little more meaningful. "The 2019-2020 NASA Software Catalog offers hundreds of new software programs you can download for free to use in a wide variety of technical applications." It is broken up into 15 different sections and there is definitely something for everyone. Everything from propulsion to environmental sciences and everything in between. They got me a couple of years ago with a software package from the Data and Image Processing tool set.  
The Remote Sensing Toolkit & EarthData are the tip of the iceberg to get your feet wet. "With the Remote Sensing Toolkit, users will now be able to find, analyze and utilize the most relevant data for their research, business projects or conservation efforts." 
EarthData is becoming my favorite landing page and is by far, the coolest software repoo on the web. They offer a little more than your basic php login form. But in reality, once again; it's alot of the same coding tasks, just cooler options for code execution. 
You should be able to sign up and get access, fairly quickly 7-10 days. But sign up while you can because the clearance time for some programs can take a bit. 1-3 months on average. NASA has also open up a HUGE patent portfolio for companies and small business to access and license. Just a plephera of Innovation and Technology. Really cool beans. SMART is good. Have Fun! Comments: (0) |
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