Franklin Turner

Franklin (Scott) Turner is a software engineer who architects and implements systems to tackle complex problems arising in instrument operations in space, including planning, visualization, data reduction, and calibration. He designs tools for proposal and instrument development efforts that simulate sensor response and enable operational concept exploration and evaluation. An expert in the use of SPICE, NASA’s planetary observation geometry information system, Turner has built software that automated the commanding of the Cassini/MIMI instrument, geometrically calibrated the MESSENGER/MDIS imagers and pivot system from in-flight stellar observations, and designed the first LRO/Mini-RF bistatic synthetic aperture radar observations of the lunar surface.