1. Keep it simple
2. Plan
3. Design
4. Test

• < a few watts - largely solved
• a few to 50 watts - still quite problematic
• > 50 watts - largely solved by industry for the Kwatt range

• few bytes per day - largely solved
• KBytes per day - possible to send back via satellite and log on site
• MBybes per day - necessary to log on site, communications problematic

• very small
• Twin Otter - < 2000 pounds
• Herc - < 10,000 pounds

• Coastal - high winds, icing is a problem
• Mountain - extremely high winds
• Plateau - winds < 50 knots making wind generation infeasible

• Encouragement of the establishment of an NSF polar programs technology program.
• Cultural change among the scientists for taking the time to develop and test equipment before deployment.
• According to NSF a 5 year proposal with 2 years of development and testing is allowable and reasonable.
• More availability of planning data such as weather data and arial photographs.
• Test facilities including regional test facilities and allowance for purchase of in-house test facilities.
• Establishment of an informal technology resource group within the community - more below.
• Better cross-agency and cross-institutional collaborations including partnerships with industry.
• Collaborations between engineers and scientists for we designed systems that meet the scientific goals.

• The community would benefit from informal exchange of information, and an experimenter's handbook.
• We have extablished chairs of technical working groups.

Last modified on 3/13/00 by Maggi Glasscoe (Maggi.Glasscoe@jpl.nasa.gov)