Spinoff story

Cloud Imagers Offer New Details on Earth’s Health

A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.

About this technology

Overview

Boulder, Colorado-based Stratton Park Engineering Company Inc. (SPEC) has won numerous SBIR contracts to develop atmospheric instrumentation, including a Phase II SBIR from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for cloud particle imagers. The SPEC Cloud Particle Imager (CPI) has been installed on NASA's high-altitude research aircraft and has been sold to universities and agencies around the world. Mounted to airplane exteriors, the CPI system captures images of cloud particles, enabling further analysis for climate predictions and research