@inbook{593518b694a64c0fb862e59ea1201f61,
title = "Plant production, energy balance and monitoringcontrol-telepresence in a recirculating hydroponic vegetable crop production system: Prototype lunar greenhouse",
abstract = "The goals of this investigation were to evaluate a Bioregenerative Life Support System (BLSS) approach for a sustained human surface presence on the Moon (or Mars) for a four-person crew by the development and/or demonstration of polyculture crop production, system mass balances and flow of input/output resources, biomass recycling, energy generation, and monitoring/control with non-contact sensing and telepresence technologies. Food production efficiency (kg/unit time/resource input) was determined based on fresh and dry weights produced per unit time, volume, and input resources. A Solar Concentrated Power System using a Himawari was evaluated. A Remote Experts Network and Decision Support System (RENDSys) was created to improve the monitoring and control capability with noncontact sensing and telepresence technologies. An Energy Cascade Model for a multicrop lunar greenhouse system was evaluated. These component systems represent several of the major developmental needs for a future BLSS as determined by the Arizona-NASA Steckler Space Grant Program: Prototype Lunar Greenhouse Development. Each was discussed individually in detail within the proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Environmental Systems, Tucson, Arizona. This paper represents an overview of the Prototype Lunar Greenhouse Development based on those reports.",
keywords = "BLSS, Bioregenerative life support, Controlled environment, Mars, Moon, NASA steckler space grant, Planetary habitat, Urban agriculture",
author = "G. Giacomelli and M. Kacira and R. Furfaro and Patterson, {R. L.} and P. Sadler",
note = "Funding Information: We wish to thank NASA and the Ralph Steckler Space Grant Program for their support provided to the Arizona Space Grant Consortium, Dr. Timothy Swindle, Director and Susan Brew, Program Manager. We extend our thanks to Phil Sadler, Sadler Machine Co. for his manufacture and financial support of the LGH, Dr. Ray Wheeler, NASA Technical Advisor, and to Neal Barto, for implementing, and Dr. David Story, for developing, the instrumentation and controls, as well as to the students, including Michael Downing, Tyler Jensen, Caitlyn Hall, Erica Hernandez, and Sean Gellenbeck, for their diligence in operations and data collection. Also many thanks are due our international collaborators for their in-kind technical and materials support, including Cesare Lobascio and Giorgio Boscheri of Thales Alenia Space- Italy, Silvio Rossignoli and Marzia Pirolli of Aero-Sekur (Italy), Alberto Battistelli of CNR (Italy), and Seiji Matsuda of AGC (Japan).",
year = "2015",
month = dec,
day = "23",
doi = "10.17660/ActaHortic.2015.1107.6",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Acta Horticulturae",
publisher = "International Society for Horticultural Science",
pages = "53--59",
editor = "{De Pascale}, S. and W.J. Jiang and G. Connellan",
booktitle = "XXIX International Horticultural Congress on Horticulture",
}