Canopy Near-Infrared Observing Project — Presentation Detail — Celebration of Scholars

Instructions

Student presentations must have a faculty sponsor.

Abstracts must include a title and a description of the research, scholarship, or creative work. The description should be 150-225 words in length and constructed in a format or style appropriate for the presenter’s discipline.

The following points should be addressed within the selected format or style for the abstract:

A clear statement of the problem or question you pursued, or the scholarly goal or creative theme achieved in your work.
A brief comment about the significance or uniqueness of the work.
A clear description of the methods used to achieve the purpose or goals for the work.
A statement of the conclusions, results, outcomes, or recommendations, or if the work is still in progress, the results you expect to report at the event.

Presenter photographs should be head and shoulder shots comparable to passport photos.

Additional Information

More information is available at carthage.edu/celebration-scholars/. The following are members of the Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Committee who are eager to listen to ideas and answer questions:

Jun Wang
Kim Instenes
John Kirk
Nora Nickels
Andrew Pustina
James Ripley

Canopy Near-Infrared Observing Project

Name: Jeremiah Munson
Major: Physics
Hometown: Rushford, MN
Faculty Sponsor: Kevin Crosby
Other Sponsors:
Type of research: SURE
Funding: Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium

Name: Charles Gallagher
Major: Computer Science, Mathematics
Hometown: Roscoe, IL
Faculty Sponsor: Kevin Crosby
Other Sponsors:
Type of research: SURE
Funding: Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium

Abstract

The Canopy Near-infrared Observing Project (CaNOP) is a CubeSat program funded through the NASA Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium. The goal of the program is to design, build, and fly a shoebox-sized satellite that reproduces much of the functional capability of the Landsat series of earth-observing satellites. The CaNOP satellite utilizes a multispectral pushbroom imager with narrow spectral bands in the near infrared and optical bands to gather reflectance data from global forest regions with spectral resolution similar to the imager aboard the LandSat 8 platform. The data collected will be sufficient to calculate the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI). The team has completed multiple design reviews and necessary documentation and has begun assembling and programing the CubeSat. CaNOP is manifested on an Orbital ATK mission to the International Space Station where it will be deployed into space from the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM).

Poster file