The development of satellite ground stations
Abstract
The activities of the Netherlands aerospace laboratory NLR in designing, constructing, and operating ground stations for terrestrial remote-sensing satellites are reviewed and illustrated with diagrams, photographs, and sample satellite images. The role of the ground station as an information center is discussed, and consideration is given to the KOSMOSS station (receiving NOAA weather-satellite data for Netherlands use), the COSMOSS station (performing the same function for Indonesia), and the ARTEMIS station (developed with NASA cooperation for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization to monitor rainfall and vegetation cover in Africa and the Middle East using NOAA and Meteosat images). The applicability of the hardware and software developed in these projects to future stations is considered.
- Publication:
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Ruimtevaart
- Pub Date:
- December 1987
- Bibcode:
- 1987Ruimt..36...27V
- Keywords:
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- Aerial Photography;
- Ground Stations;
- Meteorological Satellites;
- Remote Sensing;
- Satellite Imagery;
- Computer Systems Programs;
- Hardware;
- Noaa Satellites;
- Space Communications, Spacecraft Communications, Command and Tracking