Ground Segment Coordination Body
Kongsberg Satellite Services Arnulf A. Kjeldsen, COO
GSCB Workshop, 18th-19th June 2009, ESA/ESRIN Frascati
WORLD CLASS – through people, technology and dedication
Contents
1. KSAT Operations & Facilities
2. Missions supported
3. EO Data Flow & Communication
4. HMA
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• Ground Station Services • Pole to Pole network • Payload data acquisitions • TT&C & Hosting Services
•EO Services • Acquisition and processing of image data (SAR and optical) • Provision of NRT maritime services • Oil spill • Ship detection
• Direct Image services • Background: Improve logistics and timeliness of data circulation in particular for NRT based applications • Global NRT Data Access • KSAT act as a Clearing House between satellite owners and users • Focus on rapid access to data or information
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KSAT ground network – Key Sites
Svalsat, 78°N Alaska, 65°N
Grimstad, 58°N Tromsø, 69°N
Bangalore
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• At 78 deg north, SvalSat and Tromsø has become key stations for EO payload data downlink. Primary Station for missions operated by : • ESA and EUMETSAT • Commercial: RapidEye, GeoEye, Digital Globe • Canada (RadarSat-1/RadarSat-2) • JAXA, ISRO, KARI • NASA Ground Network • NOAA NPOESS programme
• Also key station for navigation and telecom • Galileo • Iridium
• Ka-band capability for 2010 • • 20 Gbit capacity to Norwegian telecom grid for EO data circulation
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KSAT Southern Station - Antarctica
• At 72 deg south, 2 deg west
• Operational S&X service since 2007.
• Routine X-band acquisition services at 7-800 Mbit/sec payload data downlink
• Users of KSAT Antarctica Station: • GeoEye • JAXA • ESA • ISRO
• 65 Mbit communication link
/ 6 / 24/06/2009 KSAT Supported Missions
• Current Missions • ESA Missions: Envisat, ERS-2, Goce • MDA/Canada: RadarSat-1, RadarSat-2 • ISRO: IRS 1d, OceanSat-1, CartoSat-1, ResourceSat-1, CartoSat-2, CartoSat-2a, TWSat, TES • JAXA: GOSAT, Hinode (Solar-B), Index, Astro-F, SDS-1 • RapidEye: RapidEye constellation • NASA: Aqua, Terra, IceSat, Aura, Champ, QuikSCAT, EO-1, Landsat-7, AIM • IPO/NOAA Coriolis, POES • GeoEye: GeoEye-1 • Digital Globe: Quickbird, WorldView-1 • EUMETSAT: METOP-1 • DLR: TerraSARX • KARI: Kompsat-2 • NSPO: COSMIC, FormoSat-2 • Upcoming Missions • Deimos: DEIMOS • NOAA/IPO: NPP, NPOESS series • ESA: CryoSat2, SMOS, ADM Aeolus • EUMETSAT: METOP-2, METOP-3 • JAXA: GCOM-C, GCOM-W • EIAST: DubaiSat-1 • Digital Globe: WorldView-2
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ESA/Canada Misions: Radarsat-1/Radarsat-2/Envisat
• RadarSat: KSAT & Norwegian investment in the program • Envisat: National facility • Facility work: Acquisition, processing, long term archival • Key datasources for the EMSA (European Maritime Safety Agency) CleanseaNet service. • Oil Spill and ship detection • Integrated AIS. Complete Europe covered • Level 1b image, oil spill analysis and related info delivered within 30 minutes after satellite data reception • Global • Latest Certification Status: All northern KSAT ground stations (Svalbard, Tromsø and Grimstad) have been certified for RadarSat-2 operations. • KSAT will provide RadarSat-2 data to the DAP service in collaboration with MDA. • Future Plans: Radarsat follow-on missions, Sentinel
/ 8 / 24/06/2009 Kompsat-2
• Completed 1st year of operations. • KompSat-2 acquisitions at Svalbard. Approximately 10 daily contacts are used for data downlink at the SvalSat satellite station. • Level 1 processing at KSAT/Tromsø for scientific users and at SISA/Toulouse for commercial users • Level 1b Archive at KSAT, Tromsø
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KSAT Communication Network
• EO Data Flow supported through several network
solutions: Svalbard • Leased (dedicated) circuits • MPLS clouds Oslo • Research integrated networks • Internet US
ASIA • Capacity sharing • On satellite link from Antarctica to US/Europe • Between station and main telecom PoPs
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1 Gbit local Svalbard circuit
Leased circuits ranging from 34 Mbit to 155 Mbit
MPLS and/or Users Internet Tromsø
Leased Leased circuits Circuit Teleport
Satellite Link 65 Mbit
Antarctica
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HMA Implementation - Status
• Prototype ordering service, implementation of HMA ordering schema (V 0.9.2 ). • operational discovery service, based on OGC Catalog service ebRIM profile (CS-W V 2.0.0) for level1 products
• Operational data access services, implementing OGC WMS/WCS/WFS
/ 12 / 24/06/2009 HMA Implementation – Next Steps
• Operational ordering service based on HMA ordering, with enhanced ”order negotiation” functionality.
• Future ordering service interfacing to sat-operators/owners sensor planning services
• Discovery and ordering from rawdata archives.
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Summary
• SvalSat station continues to expand in terms missions and users and in terms of capabilities (Capacity, Ka-band etc.)
• Antarctica station in its third year of successful operations. Serves key commercial and scientific missions.
• Radarsat-2 and future RadarSat/Sentinel secures data and service continuity for the maritime monitoring and surveilleance.
• HMA compliant ordering and sensor planning is key for data delivery services.
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