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Kongsberg Satellite Services Ground segment and licensed mission operations by Jan Petter Pedersen, Deputy director Content - Introducing KSAT and the ground segment - Ground segment overview - Important missions - Concluding remarks

Presentation given at the GSCB workshop, ESRIN 19-20 June 2007 © KONGSBERG

Svalbard Satellite Station Aurora, January 2005

Photo: B.Hillestad, KSAT

KSAT operational activities ƒ TT&C and EO services, near real-time, 24/7 operations ƒ Operations contracts for satellite owners and operators – Polar Ground Station Services (TT&C services) – Mutimission SAR and optical operations (Data handling)

ƒ Company data utilisation agreements – Provision of (N)RT services tailored to user requirements – Operational provision of GSE & GMES services (MARCOAST, EMSA)

ƒ Pole-to-Pole ground segment – – – –

Tromsø - 69° 39` N, 18° 56` E Svalbard - 78° 15` N, 15° 80` E Grimstad – 58° 20` N, 8° 30` E TrollSat (Antarctica) – 2007

ƒ GMES & GS experience and relevance – Joint operations TT&C + Data handling/utilisation – Multimission data and services for operational applications

ƒ Sentinel-1 group: Radarsat 1 and 2, Envisat, ALOS. Plans for Radarsat-C, Sentinel-1 ƒ Sentinel-2 group: KOMPSAT-2, Rapideye, Formosat-2, Geoeye ƒ Sentinel-3 group: NOAA/AVHRR, Aqua/Terra MODIS, … © © KONGSBERG KONGSBERG 26 August 2003

KSAT Pole to Pole ground segment SvalSat, 78° N 14 of 14 orbits

Grimstad, 58° N

TrollSat/Antarctica, 72° S 12 of 14 orbits © © KONGSBERG KONGSBERG 26 August 2003

Tromsø Station, 69° N, 10 of 14 orbits

The KSAT Tromsø Station (Tromsø Satellite Station) ƒ KSAT main office in Tromsø at 69° 39`N, 18° 56`E ƒ Ground segment single access points – Tromsø Network Operations (TNOC) – Tromsø Earth Observation Center (TEOS)

ƒ Reception of data from the other sites for processing, analysis, archival and distribution ƒ Order desk for interfacing customers and satellite operators – Regular acquisition planning – Rush orderings/rapid response

ƒ Web based user interface for data and information dissemination using open standards ƒ Independent ground segment, but – Mission data archives and catalogues – ESA GS compatibility by MMFI © © KONGSBERG KONGSBERG 26 August 2003

The KSAT Svalbard Station (SvalSat) ƒ Established in 1997 ƒ Currently 6 main (11 - 13m), 2 smaller (~ 3m) antennas ƒ Main meteorological high latitude ground station (EUMETSAT, IPO) ƒ Controlled from TNOC in Tromsø ƒ Advantages: – Full global coverage: 14 of 14 orbits – Telecommunication solution (20 GBits fibre)

ƒ Cost efficient infrastructure ƒ Flexible customer adaptive operations

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Troll Station, Antartica ƒ

Complete 7,5 meter X-band data system

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Operational since Q2 – 2007

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Commanding & control from Tromsø – TT&C and LEOP support – Data reception

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Customers – OrbView 5 – Others ……

ƒ Satellite based communication (scalable) © © KONGSBERG KONGSBERG 26 August 2003

KSAT Network Svalbard (SvalSat)

Grimstad (South Norway) SG2 M&C

Tromsø

SG3 M&C

SG4 M&C

SG5 M&C

TG1 M&C TG2 M&C

GR1 M&C

Troll (Antarctica)

JAVA GUI TR1 M&C

TG3 M&C

Tromsø Network Operation center (TNOC)

IPO/Raytheon

NASA/HTSI

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Eumetsat

ESA

DLR

KARI

DigitalGlobe

Orbimage

Data and information dissemination ƒ 20 Gbit Fiber Svalbard and Norway mainland Svalbard 20 Gbit

ƒ 34-155 MBits fiber connections from Tromsø to US, Europe, etc

Trom so

ƒ Satellite telecommunication to Troll Asia

NASA/NOAA/Or bimage

Oslo

Europe

• Web-based user information interface • Based on open standards © © KONGSBERG KONGSBERG 26 August 2003

KSAT – Missions Supported Current Missions ƒ

NASA:

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ESA Missions: MDA: Other:

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NOAA/IPO: ISRO: Digital Globe: EUMETSAT:

Aqua, Terra, Icesat, Aura, Landsat-7 , EO-1, QSCAT, etc ERS-2, Envisat, ALOS Radarsat-1 SAC-C, Grace-1, Grace-2, Gravity Probe B, Coriolis, NOAA missions (POES) IRS missions QuickBird-2, WorldView METOP-1

Upcoming Missions ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒ ƒ

NOAA/IPO: Orbimage: ESA: Eumetsat : DLR: KARI: MDA: JAXA: Others:

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NPP, NPOESS, Orbview-5 Cryosat, GOCE, Aeolus Metop-2, Metop-3 SAR Lupe KOMPSAT-2 Radarsat-2 INDEX, Solar-B, GoSat Rapideye

Radarsat mission ƒ Norwegian investment, incuding a KSAT contribution in the Radarsat program ƒ Public and commercial access to data from Radarsat-1 and Radarsat-2 data ƒ Direct downlink Radarsat-1 data, extension by Svalbard global dump for Radarsat-2 ƒ Primary data source (together with Envisat) for the NRT services, including EMSA CleanSeaNet service ƒ Local data archive and catalogue since 1996 ƒ Advantage: Provision of data and derived information to the user in less than 30 minutes ƒ Plans for extending into the Radarsat-C mission

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ESA missions: Envisat ƒ National facility, focus on the ASAR data ƒ Complete ground segment compatible for data reception, Tromsø the main hub ƒ ASAR data important for the NRT services ƒ Wide swath products in 3-4 minutes, fully compatible with the ESA format ƒ Sentinel-1 important for data and service continuity ƒ Maintain our SAR capability for the future European missions

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Ship and oil spill detection service

Integration satellite and AIS information © © KONGSBERG KONGSBERG 26 August 2003

ALOS PALSAR ƒ ALOS operations under ESA contract since May 2007 ƒ Tromsø main hub of the ESA ALOS ground segment – Direct downlink, Tromsø coverage – Off-line processing and archiving (MMFI) – JAXA data transcription

ALOS PASAR data received and processed by KSAT, May 2006

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Terra/Aqua MODIS ƒ Data acquisition at Svalbard and in Tromsø ƒ NRT processing chain – Standard products – Derived information

ƒ Local data archive and catalogue ƒ Frequent data access increase application potential ƒ Advantage: Data (type) continuity secured

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MODIS derived information products

MODIS Polar winds (above) MODIS+ASAR snow cover map (right) © © KONGSBERG KONGSBERG 26 August 2003

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KOMPSAT ƒ

Recent contract with ESA involving KSAT, Spot Image, KARI

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Kompsat-2 acquisition at Svalbard Satellite Station. Ingest system provided by KARI.

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Level 0 data to KSAT processing centre in Tromsø and in parallel to SISA in Toulouse as part of the back-up scenario.

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Pre-Processing up to Level 1A and archiving in Tromso by KSAT for all Kompsat-2 data acquired

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Processing of data up to Level 1+ for ESA cat-1 users, limited to 1500 archived images and new acquisitions, currently estimated to 2000 images

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SISA will have the responsibility for back-up processing operations and archiving at SISA premises in Toulouse

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Conclusions ƒ Pole-to-Pole ground segment offers a unique satellite access twice per orbit, from a single access point in Tromsø ƒ Ground segment tailored to user requirements – Implementation of customer furnished equipment – 24/7 operations, NRT, fast response capabilities – Independent ground segment, but open standards secure access and interoperabiity – Serves the fully operational GMES service; EMSA CSN

ƒ SAR missions important for the operational GMES services – The current Envisat/Radarsat generation – Interests for recent Cosmo-Skymed and TerraSAR – Sentinel-1 group: Towards next generation Radarsat-C, Sentinel-1

ƒ Optical missions, increasing importance – Provision of data and services to/via satellite owners and operators – Data for global multi-mission rapid response services © © KONGSBERG KONGSBERG 26 August 2003