We present a detailed observational strategy for finding Near Earth Objects ( NEOs ) with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey ( SDSS ) telescope .
We investigate strategies in normal , unbinned mode as well as binning the CCDs 2 \times 2 or 3 \times 3 , which affects the sky coverage rate and the limiting apparent magnitude .
We present results from 1 month , 3 year and 10 year simulations of such surveys .
For each cadence and binning mode , we evaluate the possibility of achieving the Spaceguard goal of detecting 90 % of 1 km NEOs ( absolute magnitude H \leq 18 for an albedo of 0.1 ) .
We find that an unbinned survey is most effective at detecting H \leq 20 NEOs in our sample .
However , a 3 \times 3 binned survey reaches the Spaceguard Goal after only seven years of operation .
As the proposed large survey telescopes ( PanStarss ; LSST ) are at least 5-10 years from operation , an SDSS NEO survey could make a significant contribution to the detection and photometric characterization of the NEO population .