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 / 2 / 24/06/2009 KSAT Operations • 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 / 3 / 24/06/2009 KSAT ground network – Key Sites Svalsat, 78°N Alaska, 65°N Grimstad, 58°N Tromsø, 69°N Bangalore / 4 / 24-Jun-0924/06/2009 KSAT Northern Stations Svalbard Station (SvalSat) and Tromsø • 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 / 5 / 24/06/2009 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 / 7 / 24/06/2009 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 / 9 / 24/06/2009 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 / 10 / 24/06/2009 KSAT Communication Network 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 / 11 / 24/06/2009 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. / 13 / 24/06/2009 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. / 14 / 24/06/2009.