Erica H. Peterson

Current:

I am currently a PhD student at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, supervised by Robert E. Zee in the Space Flight Laboratory and Georgia Fotopoulos in the Geomatics Group. My work involves multistatic interferometric synthetic aperture radar payload design for a constellation of cooperative formation-flying microsatellites. I have also worked on science mission analysis for the Lunette Lunar Gravity Mapping Payload, and was the team coordinator with the European Student Moon Orbiter during Phase A studies.

When I'm not in lab, I serve on the executive committee of the SSETI Association, and am still active in the MIT Lecture Series Committee and the MIT Student Information Processing Board.

I graduated from MIT with an S.B. in Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2002, and received my M.A.Sc. from the University of Toronto in 2008.

Publications:

E. H. Peterson, G. Fotopoulos, and R. E. Zee, "A Feasibility Assessment for Low-Cost InSAR Formation-Flying Microsatellites," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 47(8), August 2009.

E. Peterson, R. E. Zee, and G. Fotopoulos, "Orbit Scenarios for a Multistatic InSAR Formation Flying Microsatellite Mission," Proc. 59th International Astronautical Congress, Glasgow, Scotland, October 2008.

E. Peterson, R. E. Zee, and G. Fotopoulos, "Possible Orbit Scenarios for an InSAR Formation Flying Microsatellite Mission," Proc. 22nd Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, Logan, Utah, August 2008.

M. Short, C. Short, A. Philip, J. Grzymisch, E. Peterson, R. Zee, H. Spencer, and J. Arkani-Hamed, "Lunette: Satellite-to-Satellite Gravity Mapping of the Moon," Proc. ASTRO 2008 Conference, Montreal, April 2008.

E. Peterson, J. Grzymisch, H. Spencer, R. E. Zee, and J. Arkani-Hamed, "The Design of a Lunar Farside Gravity Mapping Nanosatellite for the European Student Moon Orbiter Mission," Proc. 21st Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, Logan, Utah, August 2007.

W. D. Hall, and E. H. Peterson, "Ascent: A network-wide simulation of air traffic flow management incorporating airline decisions," Proc. 2002 American Control Conference, May 2002.

Posters:

E. Peterson, G. Fotopoulos, C. K. Shum, R. E. Zee, J. Arkani-Hamed, H. Spencer, "A comparison between high-low and low-low satellite-to-satellite tracking methods in lunar gravimetry," 37th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Montreal, Canada, July 2008.

Previous work and activities:

MIT DARPA Grand Challenge Team (2004-2005)

MIT Information Services and Technology (2003-2006)

MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate: project results (2003)

Mars Gravity Biosatellite Project (2002-2003)

Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Information Decision Systems group (2000-2002)

MIT/Teradyne/Schlumberger FIRST Robotics Team #97 (2000-2001)

6.270 Autonomous LEGO Robotics Contest (1999-2005)

IBM, Electronics Design Automation group (1999)

The MIT Symphony Orchestra (1998-1999)