Researchers at NASA are experienced in using data from a number of sources towards their project objectives. Currently they are forced to deal with each data source individually which is a very manual process prone to errors and duplications. DSAT provides a standard efficient process for not only data import, and parsing but also storing it on a platform of choice, be it cloud or a remote hard disk. It saves researchers from having to write yet another import script or tool for their data import needs. This single aspect of DSAT alone can save NASA valuable resources and drastically reduce the errors in data import and warehousing. The researchers can use the tool compute standard metrics are regularly used for any research project. Simple metrics such as flight count, fleet mix, level of equipage etc. are used regularly and can be initiated from within DSAT once the data import has completed. DSAT's visualization features allow researchers to call upon previously chose set of chart and graphs conveniently thus saving more time and effort.
The data storing, analyzing and visualizing capabilities are attractive to researchers from any organization that work with large amount of heterogeneous data. DSAT is equally applicable for research projects at other government agencies including FAA and DoD and commercial enterprises including airlines, and research institutes. For these agencies the set of metrics and data parsers would be modified but the framework would remain the same.
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