Allison Flores

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Iowa students help develop NASA satellites

Graduate College feature on students helping develop NASA satellites, in which she discusses her work on TRACERS.

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Mitigation of reaction wheel interference and other noise sources in spacecraft using remote sensing and laboratory-generated data

First-author poster. Testing a spectral-domain mitigation algorithm on e-POP/Swarm-Echo data and on a laboratory dataset where both the noise and the geophysical signal are known.

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Convolution — instructional design module

An instructional module on convolution for undergraduate signal processing students.

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Reaction Wheel Interference Mitigation within Magnetometer Data Utilizing Harmonic Structures

First author. Removing reaction-wheel interference in the frequency domain by targeting its fundamental and harmonic signatures, with CASSIOPE/Swarm-Echo data as the case study.

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Enabling in situ validation of mitigation algorithms for magnetic interference via a laboratory-generated dataset

Coauthored. A laboratory-generated dataset with known ground truth, so interference-mitigation algorithms can be validated rather than assumed.

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Two-dimensional gas chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GCxGC-ToF-MS) data analysis for identifying unknown persistent organic pollutants in milk samples

MS thesis. Analyzing chemical compounds in a large GCxGC-ToF-MS data repository.

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Mitigating Magnetic Interference in Space Science Missions: A Case Study of Feature Separation Techniques

First author. A case study in separating reaction-wheel interference using two vector magnetometers along a boom, with results from e-POP/Swarm-Echo.

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The MAGnetometers for Innovation and Capability (MAGIC) Technology Demonstration Payload

Coauthored. The technology-demonstration payload behind the TRACERS magnetometers.

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The Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) Magnetic Control Plan

Coauthored. The mission's plan for keeping spacecraft-generated fields off the science measurement.

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mag-noise/crm — Constellation Ready Magnetometers processing code

Python processing with MATLAB CDF generation. A versioned, archived, citable software artifact.

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Three Minute Thesis — Honorable Mention

Judge-selected Honorable Mention in the College of Engineering Three Minute Thesis competition, after rebuilding her slides from the graduate-round feedback.

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HESTO Conference presentation

A 15-minute presentation on mitigating magnetic noise from spacecraft by tracking the time-frequency signature of reaction wheels.