Satellite Image Receiving, Processing and Archiving System

Supporting Satellites

• NOAA Environmental Satellites
• Geostationary Meteorological Satellites (GMS)
• TERRA MODIS

System Organization

Receiving System

• NOAA HRPT
  • 2.4m Parabolic Refrector Antenna (Dundee Satellite Systems)
  • IBM PC Compat. for Antenna Control
  • SPARCstation 5 for HRPT Data Ingestion
• GMS S-VISSR
  • 3.7m Parabolic Refrector Antenna (Dundee Satellite Systems)
  • SPARCstation 5 for S-VISSR Data Ingestion
• TERRA MODIS
  • 2.8m Parabolic Refrector Antenna
  • IBM PC Compat. for Antenna Control
  • IBM PC Compat. for MODIS Data Ingestion

Archiving System

• File Server
  • SUN Fire 4800 (4CPUs, 16GB Memory)
  • SUN Fire 280R (2CPUs, 4GB Memory)
  • SUN Enterprise 6500 (8CPUs, 4GB Memory)
• Disk Array
  • SUN StorEdge T3 array (327GB * 2)
  • SUN Enterprise Network Array A5000 (127GB * 3)
  • IAI SFX-61200S-16000 (1.6TB)
  • IAI SNX-61000-SELV-6600 (660GB * 2)
  • IAI SNX-60000-RELV-1800 (180GB)
  • Hitachi A-6531 (60GB)
• Tape Juke Box
  • StorageTek PowderHorn 9310 (T9940/9840/D3)
  • NCL Communication NTH-200B 8mm Tape Juke Box (2TB * 4)
• Hierarchical Storage Management Software
  • VERITAS HSM

Covarage Area by IIS HRPT Ground Station

Received Images

• Quicklook Images