Yung, Pun To
Lester, Elizabeth
Ponce, Adrian
Funding for this research was provided by:
NASA | Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Article History
Received: 1 May 2019
Accepted: 16 December 2019
First Online: 16 January 2020
Competing interests
: P.T.Y. and E.D.L. declare no competing interests. A.P. declares, in accordance his ethical obligation as a researcher, that he has a financial and business interests in a company that may be affected by the research reported in the enclosed paper. This research was sponsored by NASA and the Department of Homeland Security, and may lead to the development of products, the intellectual property of which are licensed to Verrix, LLC, in which A.P. has a business and financial interest. The research and draft manuscript was completed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory before the founding of Verrix, LLC, but the manuscript was not finalized and submitted until after Verrix, LLC was founded. This separation in time between when the research was performed, and the founding of Verrix, LLC, and the fact that the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Ethics Office documented the project ending prior to the foundation of Verrix mitigate even the perception of competing interests for this work.