The Resilient Earth

Allen Simmons, with a BSEE, wrote the computer systems software for the world's first weather satellites, TIROS 1-9. TIROS-Television and Infra-Red Observation Satellite-provided background experience for developing a satellite system to monitor the Earth's weather and atmosphere that are used today. Following TIROS, he led a team of engineers and scientists to develop computer systems for the NIMBUS series of polar orbiting satellites. NIMBUS payloads were designed to collect meteorological, atmospheric, geological, oceanographic, and other environmental data to study the Earth's dynamic behavior. He spent twelve years working with NASA scientists developing computer systems involved with predictor models for the earth's atmosphere and selected ocean cooling and warming studies. He also developed the computer system for the Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer which resulted in the first mapping images of Mars. Later, on the island of St. Croix, he and Hoffman developed a computer system to track objects at great ocean depths. Simmons, as Director of Computer Systems for a Saudi Arabian industrial city, also guest-lectured at the University of Petromin on oil spill models he developed.

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