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Kongsberg Satellite Services Ground segment and licensed mission operations

by

Jan Petter Pedersen,

Deputy director

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

Svalbard Satellite Station Aurora, January 2005 Photo: B.Hillestad, KSAT

Content- Introducing KSAT and the ground segment- Ground segment overview- Important missions- Concluding remarks

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KSAT operational activities

TT&C and EO services, near real-time, 24/7 operations

Operations contracts for satellite owners and operators– Polar Ground Station Services (TT&C services)– Mutimission SAR and optical operations (Data handling)

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

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

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

Sentinel-1 group: Radarsat 1 and 2, Envisat, ALOS. Plans for Radarsat-C, Sentinel-1

Sentinel-2 group: KOMPSAT-2, Rapideye, Formosat-2, Geoeye

Sentinel-3 group: NOAA/AVHRR, Aqua/Terra MODIS, …


KSAT Pole to Pole ground segment

TrollSat/Antarctica, 72° S12 of 14 orbits

SvalSat, 78° N14 of 14 orbits Tromsø Station, 69° N,

10 of 14 orbits

Grimstad, 58° N


The KSAT Tromsø Station (Tromsø Satellite Station)

KSAT main office in Tromsø at 69°39`N, 18° 56`E

Ground segment single access points– Tromsø Network Operations (TNOC)– Tromsø Earth Observation Center (TEOS)

Reception of data from the other sites for processing, analysis, archival and distribution

Order desk for interfacing customers and satellite operators

– Regular acquisition planning– Rush orderings/rapid response

Web based user interface for data and information dissemination using open standards

Independent ground segment, but– Mission data archives and catalogues– ESA GS compatibility by MMFI


The KSAT Svalbard Station (SvalSat)

Established in 1997

Currently 6 main (11 - 13m), 2 smaller (~ 3m) antennas

Main meteorological high latitude ground station (EUMETSAT, IPO)

Controlled from TNOC in Tromsø

Advantages:– Full global coverage: 14 of 14

orbits– Telecommunication solution (20

GBits fibre)

Cost efficient infrastructure

Flexible customer adaptive operations


Troll Station, Antartica

Complete 7,5 meter X-band data system

Operational since Q2 – 2007

Commanding & controlfrom Tromsø– TT&C and LEOP support– Data reception

Customers– OrbView 5– Others ……

Satellite basedcommunication(scalable)


KSAT Network

IPO/Raytheon NASA/HTSI Eumetsat ESA DLR KARI Orbimage

Grimstad (South Norway)

Troll (Antarctica)

Svalbard (SvalSat)

Tromsø SG2M&C

SG3M&C

SG4M&C

SG5M&C

TG1M&C

TG2M&C

TG3M&C

GR1M&C

TR1M&C

JAVAGUI

Tromsø Network Operation center(TNOC)

DigitalGlobe


NASA/NOAA/Orbimage

Svalbard

Tromso

Oslo

20 Gbit

Europe

Asia

20 Gbit Fiber Svalbard and Norway mainland

34-155 MBits fiber connections from Tromsøto US, Europe, etc

Satellite telecommunication to Troll

Data and information dissemination

• Web-based user informationinterface

• Based on open standards


Current MissionsNASA: Aqua, Terra, Icesat, Aura,

Landsat-7 , EO-1, QSCAT, etcESA Missions: ERS-2, Envisat, ALOSMDA: Radarsat-1Other: SAC-C, Grace-1, Grace-2, Gravity

Probe B,NOAA/IPO: Coriolis, NOAA missions (POES)ISRO: IRS missionsDigital Globe: QuickBird-2, WorldViewEUMETSAT: METOP-1

Upcoming MissionsNOAA/IPO: NPP, NPOESS,Orbimage: Orbview-5ESA: Cryosat, GOCE, AeolusEumetsat : Metop-2, Metop-3DLR: SAR LupeKARI: KOMPSAT-2MDA: Radarsat-2JAXA: INDEX, Solar-B, GoSatOthers: Rapideye

KSAT – Missions Supported


Radarsat mission

Norwegian investment, incuding a KSAT contribution in the Radarsatprogram

Public and commercial access to data from Radarsat-1 and Radarsat-2 data

Direct downlink Radarsat-1 data, extension by Svalbard global dump for Radarsat-2

Primary data source (together with Envisat) for the NRT services, includingEMSA CleanSeaNet service

Local data archive and catalogue since 1996

Advantage: Provision of data and derived information to the user in less than 30 minutes

Plans for extending into the Radarsat-C mission


ESA missions: Envisat

National facility, focus on the ASAR data

Complete ground segment compatible for data reception, Tromsøthe main hub

ASAR data important for the NRT services

Wide swath products in 3-4 minutes, fully compatible with the ESA format

Sentinel-1 important for data and service continuity

Maintain our SAR capability for the future European missions


Ship and oil spill detection service

Integrationsatellite and AIS information


ALOS PALSAR

ALOS operations under ESA contract since May 2007

Tromsø main hub of the ESA ALOS ground segment

– Direct downlink, Tromsøcoverage

– Off-line processing and archiving (MMFI)

– JAXA data transcription

ALOS PASAR data received and processed by KSAT, May 2006


Terra/Aqua MODIS

Data acquisition at Svalbard and in Tromsø

NRT processing chain– Standard products– Derived information

Local data archive and catalogue

Frequent data access increaseapplication potential

Advantage: Data (type) continuity secured


MODIS derived information products

MODIS Polar winds (above)MODIS+ASAR snow cover map (right)

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KOMPSAT

Recent contract with ESA involving KSAT, Spot Image, KARI

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

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

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

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

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


Conclusions

Pole-to-Pole ground segment offers a unique satellite access twice per orbit, from a single access point in Tromsø

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

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

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

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