Bruce W. Barnes received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Old Dominion University in 2001. He currently works as an Electronics Engineer in the Laser Remote Sensing Branch (LRSB) at NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton VA. Mr. Barnes has worked on multiple projects such as the Wind LIDAR, Navigation Doppler LIDAR, Laser Diode Lifetime testing, and Data Acquisition systems.
Some specific research projects that Mr. Barnes has worked on include: the Aircraft Wake Vortex, and the Autonomous Landing and Hazard Detection Technology (ALHAT). The main purpose of the project is to give planetary landers the ability to automatically land on a non-hazardous site.
To read more on the ALHAT project, visit it’s site at: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/tdm/alhat/
Barnes holds a patent, and has been involved in many technical papers. He has appeared as author or co-author for papers such as: The Compact, High Energy, 2-Micron Coherent Doppler Wind Lidar; Development for NASA’s Future 3-D winds Measurements From Space; Navigation Doppler Lidar Sensor for Precision Altitude and Vector Velocity Measurements; Helicopter Flight Test of a Compact, Real-time 3-D, Flash LIDAR for Imaging Hazardous Terrain During Planetary Landing.
Contact Information:
NASA Langley Research Center
5 North Dryden Street
Building 1202, Room 258, MS 468
Hampton, VA 23681-2199
phone: (757) 864-4672
email: bruce.w.barnes@nasa.gov