Steven Lambright

The Integrated Software for Images and Spectrometers package contains twenty eight programs for controlling planetary images. Steven has been a member of a team tasked with writing software to combine most of the functionality offerd by te twenty eight separate programs into a single program. During the design and implementation of the new program Steven went well beyond his duties by providing senior level expertise involving the Unified Modeling Language and Object Oriented design concepts to… Show more

The Integrated Software for Images and Spectrometers package contains twenty eight programs for controlling planetary images. Steven has been a member of a team tasked with writing software to combine most of the functionality offerd by te twenty eight separate programs into a single program. During the design and implementation of the new program Steven went well beyond his duties by providing senior level expertise involving the Unified Modeling Language and Object Oriented design concepts to the team. His efforts have helped produce a solid design and foundation which will support the continued work on this project. Show less

Steven has gone beyond his duties as an Isis developer in researching new technologies for improving the existing Isis software and serving as a consultant to the rest of the developers. At the request of the Isis project chief he began the research and invested time in finding the right tools for the team and testing them to prove their effectiveness. He continued by preparing reports and assisting other developers in using these tools both in new projects and in applying them to the existing… Show more

Steven has gone beyond his duties as an Isis developer in researching new technologies for improving the existing Isis software and serving as a consultant to the rest of the developers. At the request of the Isis project chief he began the research and invested time in finding the right tools for the team and testing them to prove their effectiveness. He continued by preparing reports and assisting other developers in using these tools both in new projects and in applying them to the existing software. His extra efforts and willingness to assist others are enabling the team to make needed improvements in speed and accuracy of the software. Show less

This STAR award recognized the outstanding contributions of Steven Lambright to the Astrogeology Science Center.

Steven performed exceptionally high quality work while developing software to read and write large image files for the Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers package. Steven overcame many obstacles while writing and integrating the software, including the optimization of caching algorithms used to minimize ultiple reads and writes of the same data and testing of… Show more

This STAR award recognized the outstanding contributions of Steven Lambright to the Astrogeology Science Center.

Steven performed exceptionally high quality work while developing software to read and write large image files for the Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers package. Steven overcame many obstacles while writing and integrating the software, including the optimization of caching algorithms used to minimize ultiple reads and writes of the same data and testing of over three hundred applications which use the new software.

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This STAR award recognizes the outstanding contributions of Steven Lambright to the Lunar Mapping and Modeling Project (LMMP) in the Astrogeology Science Center.

Steven performed exceptionally high quality work and worked very well while writing, debugging and documenting ISIS software. He was particularly helpful in a coordinated effort to develop and improve the ceneteditor program, which allows for the interactive editing of control networks with millions of points. This software will… Show more

This STAR award recognizes the outstanding contributions of Steven Lambright to the Lunar Mapping and Modeling Project (LMMP) in the Astrogeology Science Center.

Steven performed exceptionally high quality work and worked very well while writing, debugging and documenting ISIS software. He was particularly helpful in a coordinated effort to develop and improve the ceneteditor program, which allows for the interactive editing of control networks with millions of points. This software will be used in the creation of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LROC) Narrow Angle Camera mosaics of the Moon that will be used to plan future robotic and human missions to the Moon.

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Steven took the lead role during the recent conversion of the Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers (ISIS) software versioning system from the Concurrent Versions System (CVS) to Subversion. He oversaw the conversion itself, the modification of automated build scripts, the documentation and training of the programming staff. The overall results were high quality and met under tight deadlines.

Steven Lambright has been instrumental in the support of the Integrated Software for Images and Spectrometers (ISIS) for the Lunary Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) Team. He has been invaluable in diagnosing problems with the wide angle camera model and provided releases and support for the ISIS system to the LROC Team. Steven's hard work and dedication are sincerely appreciated by the USGS project chief and the ASU LROC team.

Steven converted a large and complex system of computer algorithms designed to radiometrically calibrate data from the Cassini VIMS instrument to the Isis 3 environment. He was given over 5700 lines of code written in threee different languages and converted it to less than 600 lines of Isis 3 C++ code. His code is easily readable and maintainable by even junior members of the programming staff despite the large ratio of lines of code.

Steven implemented serveral major improvements to this Isis 3 application program interface (API) including a 50% decrease in processing time for finding image footprint overlaps between the images in a mosaic. He accomplished this while on a part time schedule with an extraordinary degree of professionalism and teamwork. He kept all involved parties well informed, made sound recommendations, and demonstrated a deep level of understanding for the Isis 3 API.

Over the past six years, there has been a massive undertaking to modernize the Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers (ISIS). Researching and understanding new software development paradigms, and effectively applying them to planetary image processing, has well-positioned the Astrogeology team to support current and future NASA missions with ever increasing data volumes. Steven Lambright has diligently supported this effort by 1) designing and developing C++ base classes for… Show more

Over the past six years, there has been a massive undertaking to modernize the Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers (ISIS). Researching and understanding new software development paradigms, and effectively applying them to planetary image processing, has well-positioned the Astrogeology team to support current and future NASA missions with ever increasing data volumes. Steven Lambright has diligently supported this effort by 1) designing and developing C++ base classes for planetary cartography, 2) establishing programming and documentation standards for ISIS3, 3) developing new ISIS3 applications, 4) converting ISIS2 applications, and 5) assisting the general user community. This award is in recognition of a job well done and the Astrogeology Team commends you for your fine efforts.
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