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In order to reinforce your understanding of the power and effectiveness of linear programming, review discussion questions 2-1, 2-2, and 2-3 in the textbook.
Discussion Question: Describe the reason why spreadsheets are so applicable to linear programming, and provide an example where linear programming is applicable with a limited data set. Post an example where a spreadsheet can be used instead of hard coding to obtain fast results.
When responding to at least two of your classmates, discuss if you agree with their reasoning for the applicability of spreadsheets to linear programming. Provide details to support your response.
Refer to the Module Two Discussion Rubric for directions on completing these discussions.
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Linear Programming and NASA
Kanija Sayles posted Jul 24, 2018 7:38 PM
In addition to studying the universe, the National Aerospace and Space Agency
(NASA) also monitors the Earth. NASA has 51 active satellites in space monitoring the
Earth’s environmental conditions (Nagaraja, 2017). Some of the components that are
monitored are soil temperature, atmospheric carbon dioxide, ocean color, sea ice thickness,
temperature and weather. The satellites transfer the data to the Space Communications and
Navigation (SCaN), and SCaN uploads the data to data warehouses around the world
(Campbell,
2018).
The
amount
of
data
going
to
the
repositories
is
in
the
petabytes. Depending on the satellite, the data goes to SCaN once every 14 hours to once a
week.
The majority of NASA’s information is available for public use (Mochinski,
2018). Emergency responders in California Fire Departments can use temperature data to
detect hot spots in forests. These hot spots can be indicative of forest fires. Instead of sorting
through Pb of data by hand, which would take decades, the l...