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International EOS/NPP Direct Readout Meeting Operational use of the Svalbard and Tromsø sites for near real-time direct broadcast data services Børre Pedersen, Jan Petter Pedersen, Line Steinbakk, Arnulf Kjeldsen Kongsberg Satellite Services, Tromsø, NORWAY Svalbard Satellite Station Aurora, January 2005 Photo: B.Hillestad, KSAT Content of presentation: Introducing KSAT The KSAT ground segment Operational data and services Wind/Coriolis MODIS Conclusions

© KONGSBERG 26 August 2003 © KONGSBERG KSAT - The Company  History – : Tromsø Satellite Station (TSS) –2002 : Kongsberg Satellite Services Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace(50%) Norwegian Space Centre (50 %)  Facilities –Tromsø - at 69° 39` N, 18° 56` E –Svalbard - at 78° 15` N, 15° 80` E –Grimstad (S-Norway) – Spring 2005 –TrollSat (Antarctica) – 2006/2007  Staff: 63 (Tromsø 48, Svalbard 15)  Turnover: – ,5 Meuro (51 MNOK) –2004 Turnover: 13,5 Meuro (113 MNOK), net result > 15 % –2005 Budget: +13,2 Meuro  Company business areas –Earth Observation –Ground Station Services

© KONGSBERG 26 August 2003 © KONGSBERG KSAT Earth Observation  Focus on SAR missions –Radarsat-1 (1996), Radarsat-2 (2006) –ERS 1 and 2 (1991), Envisat (1/2003)  Near real-time operations (~minutes)  Round the clock near real-time operations  Provision of information services, e.g. Detection of oil spills, Ship positions  Direct downlink within Tromsø, Svalbard, Grimstad coverage areas  Global data access SvalSat, TrollSat and via ESA ground segment  New missions for service continuity and new products and markets  Introducing optical data and services

© KONGSBERG 26 August 2003 © KONGSBERG KSAT Ground Station Services  Svalbard advantages –14 orbits per day –Direct downlink, global data access –Fiber cable since January 2004  Round the clock operations/services –TT&C –LEOP Support –Data reception (S -X band) and distribution –Back-up and anomally support  Remote operations from Tromsø Network Control Centre (TNOC)  Customers  NASA: Terra, Aqua, ICESat, Coriolis, …  ESA: Envisat, ERS-2, ADM/Aeolus  EUMETSAT, IPO, CNES, RSI/Radarsat-2

© KONGSBERG 26 August 2003 © KONGSBERG SVALSAT This Is How It Looks Like

© KONGSBERG 26 August 2003 © KONGSBERG KSAT Grimstad antenna 3 meter antenna system, April-05 Data reception and ingest Operated & controlled from Tromsø Data distribution via land line Theoretical 3 deg. horizon

© KONGSBERG 26 August 2003 © KONGSBERG KSAT Troll Satellite Station (TrollSat)  Complete 7,5 meter S/X-band data system  Completed by 2006/2007  Commanding & control from Tromsø/TNOC  Satellite link data distribution  Customers –OrbView 5 (signed) –Other users: – TT&C and LEOP support – Data reception –Galileo –EUMETSAT/NPP/POESS meteorology –NASA missions

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© KONGSBERG 26 August 2003 © KONGSBERG KSAT ground segment & services  Svalbard = The polar meteorological satellite facility (IPO, Eumetsat)  Troll, Future meteorological site in Antarctica  SAR based services –Oil Spill detection –Ship detection for maritime security –Ice applications/data and services –Wind (speed, direction) information –Land applications -Snow & Flood mapping and monitoring  Other relevant/optical data and services –Terra, Aqua MODIS data –Coriolis WINDSAT data –TIROS-N NOAA/AVHRR data Grimstad Tromsø Svalbard

© KONGSBERG 26 August 2003 © KONGSBERG KSAT data and derived services  MODIS data, increasing interest –snow cover mapping for hydropower production planning, –flood monitoring. –  KSAT provides MODIS data and derived products for snow mapping during the melting season as part of an EU FRP project Envisnow.  Development and provision of marine earth observation services, new oceanographic information services: –Oceanographic information, wind and waves, is needed to provide reliable services. –Growing need for wind and wave information to serve the met. communities in Europe.  Potential new services –”Global” and fast access to (MODIS) optical data for European and Global users –MODIS polar winds –Coriolis/WindSat service

© KONGSBERG 26 August 2003 © KONGSBERG Coriolis wind information service  Spaceborne wind measurements –ERS scatterometer data less availability –Japanese Adeos-2 satellite failed –Envisat does not operate a scatterometer.  Operational institutional users in Europe such as met. institutes in a more difficult position with respect to service and information availability.  Emerging opportunity recognition –The KSAT capabilities to provide near real-time services –Coriolis Windsat knowledge and the data access via Svalbard, –  1) Mission found an increasing interest among European met. institutes. –  2) KSAT evaluated how a WindSat processing chain at Svalbard/Tromsø could meet European needs for fast access to wind speed and direction information. –A Coriolis wind service can and will complement KSAT Envisat ASAR NRT wind information service

© KONGSBERG 26 August 2003 © KONGSBERG Proposed Coriolis mission and service scenario  Downlink regional mission data to Svalbard and a second KSAT ground station (Tromsø or Grimstad). 4-6 passes per day.  Downlink on-board recorded global data to Svalbard  Supplementary access based on downlink of data to US facilities  Additional stations further South in Europe if required by the users  Raw data distributed via fibre link to Tromsø.  Near real-time distribution of derived wind information via land lines to institutional European users Black line = raw data Red line = derived information

© KONGSBERG 26 August 2003 © KONGSBERG Coriolis wind service mission scenario

© KONGSBERG 26 August 2003 © KONGSBERG Direct read out MODIS data  KSAT operational reception of MODIS data –Direct downlink Tromsø, Svalbard and Grimstad –Global dump Svalbard under NOAA/NASA contract  Future MODIS data type continuity, and KSAT operational ambitions for ”one-stop-shop” –Expand current capabilities and services (web-based technology) –Delivery of (Level 1B) data to users/VA companies –Utilisation of MODIS (-type) data for operational services. 1. Information reliability improvement optical+SAR data e.g algae vs oil spills 2. New services based on MODIS-type (Polar winds, snow cover mapping)

© KONGSBERG 26 August 2003 © KONGSBERG MODIS services and data products Snow cover map (right) Derived from Terra MODIS (left)

© KONGSBERG 26 August 2003 © KONGSBERG Other/commercial optical satellites  Digital Globe, OrbImage, SPOT (0,65m – 2,5m)  Formosat, Kompsat, THEOS, …  KSAT vision to serve these missions Digital Globe Tsunami, Sri Lanka SPOT 5 France b/w 2,5m Multisp 10m

© KONGSBERG 26 August 2003 © KONGSBERG Conclusions – The next step  Coriolis mission and the capability is known  Coriolis wind information will be a supplement to European institutional users/VA  Coriolis wind information may be included in KSAT wind service  Develop services based on the use of Svalbard and Troll and ESTABLISH A POLAR WORKING GROUP FOR DB APPLICATIONS

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