Workshop - 31 January 2018

Washington, D.C.

Emerging Frontiers: “Small Satellites, Big Data”

From 29 January to 1 February 2018, Saadia M. Pekkanen convened Emerging Frontiers Meeting 3, under the auspices of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation in Washington, D.C. In order to maximize input by space stakeholders and raise awareness of the project, the core research team met under the auspices of the U.S.-Japan Space Forum, which is co-chaired by Saadia M. Pekkanen and Frank Januzzi, the President of The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation. The core project team presented key aspects of the research findings to date on small satellites and big data in the context of Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA), and received extensive feedback from the specialists and participants.