1. DBCP XX Scientific and Technical Workshop October 18, 2004, Chennai, India IRIDIUM DATA PROCESSING AT ARGOS Bill Woodward – SAI Christian Ortega - CLS

2. DBCP XX Scientific and Technical Workshop October 18, 2004, Chennai, India BACKGROUND  DBCP STRONGLY URGES DISSEMINATION OF MET/OCEAN DATA VIA GTS  HISTORICALLY AVAILABLE FOR PLATFORMS USING ARGOS DATA COMMS  NOT AVAILABLE FROM OTHER SATELLITE DATA COMMS PROVIDERS

3. DBCP XX Scientific and Technical Workshop October 18, 2004, Chennai, India CURRENTLY  OPERATIONAL MET/OCEAN BUOY APPLICATIONS OF IRIDIUM ARE UNLIKELY POSSIBLE  DATA PROCESSING TO GTS WOULD BE NEEDED  ADAPTING/MODIFYING EXISTING ARGOS GTS CHAIN IS AN EFFICIENT APPROACH REQUIRING MINIMAL EFFORT

4. DBCP XX Scientific and Technical Workshop October 18, 2004, Chennai, India STATUS  R/T IRIDIUM DATA ACQUISITION FROM: Argo – Test Floats Deployed by Dana Swift Argo – Test Floats Deployed by Dana Swift PICO – Buoy Development at NOAA/PMEL PICO – Buoy Development at NOAA/PMEL  DECODING, REFORMATTING & GTS INSERTION CAPABILITY FOR EACH HAS BEEN DEVELOPED  NO DATA ONTO GTS YET

5. DBCP XX Scientific and Technical Workshop October 18, 2004, Chennai, India

6. DBCP XX Scientific and Technical Workshop October 18, 2004, Chennai, India ARGOS DATA FLOW