UNISCAN™ AND ALICE-SC™ GROUND STATIONS
AND DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR NETWORKS
Gershenzon V.E., Gershenzon O.N.
R&D Center ScanEx
Commission WG IV/9
KEY WORDS: Uniscan™, Alice-SC™, Stations, Geo-Portals
ABSTRACT:
X-band UniScan and L-band Alice-SC ground stations manufactured by R&D Center ScanEx have several important features:
- affordable price;
- based on PC under MS Windows XP;
- complete set of s/w for data reception, storage and processing;
- upgrade for different satellites on s/w level;
- compact design;
- data availability for thematic analysis in 0.5-1.0 hours after reception.
There are networks of UniScan and Alice-SC ground stations in Russia and CIS countries - at present 28 Alice-SC and 36 UniScan
ones. Alice-SC ground stations receive data from NOAA, MetOp, Feng-Yun satellites. Now UniScan receives data from IRS-1C/1D,
IRS-P5, IRS-P6, Landsat-5, EROS A, EROS B, Terra, Aqua, RADARSAT-1, ENVISAT-1. 10 UniScan ground stations are capable
for RADARS AT-1 and 6 of them already were successfully certified by CSA and MDA GSI. There are 8 UniScan ground stations
capable for SPOT-2/4. There are networks of UniScan of Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia, Ministry of Disaster management,
Roshydromet, Ministry of Higher Education. Also Center ScanEx operates commercial network of UniScan stations in Moscow,
Irkutsk and Magadan cities of Russia, allowing to cover all territory of Russia with remotely sensed images. This approach gives a
possibility to create geo-portals on the base of RS data: existing Russian geo-portals http://maps.yandex.ru,
http://new.kosmosnimki.ru. Possibility to upgrade layers of such geo-portals with up-to-date information having access to RS data in
real-time mode enables to solve different practical tasks: monitoring of floodings, wildfires, control of forestry, agriculture, oil
pollutions detection, ice-charting, etc.
Preamble
The main conditions of real-time monitoring of the Earth from
space are accessibility of different types of RS Data, their
regular reception in real-time mode and technological
possibility to process and to make available for analysis for very
short time (0.5-1 hour after reception) for the purpose of
decision making support. Today in the era of rapid development
of computing technologies RS data from space became
available for acquisition directly to Microsoft® Windows®
based PC and became indispensable tool for increasing
reliability of decision making being the source of independent
information about objects of nature and infrastructure. Designed
and manufactured by R&D Center ScanEx universal ground
stations Alice-SC™ (L-band) and UniScan™ (X-band) enable
to acquire images from wide range of Earth observing satellites.
Networks of these ground stations enable to provide data to
users in near real time mode.
UniScan™ and Alice-SC™ ground stations by ScanEx
In present era of rapid development of computing technologies
RS data from space became available for acquisition right to
Microsoft® Windows® based PC. X-band UniScan and L-band
Alice-SC ground stations manufactured by R&D Center ScanEx
have several important features:
- affordable price;
- based on PC under MS Windows XP;
- complete set of s/w for data reception, storage and processing;
- upgrade for different satellites on s/w level;
- compact design;
- data availability for thematic analysis in 0.5-1.0 hours after
reception.
The Alice-SC station provides for the RS data reception and
processing from the following satellites:
NOAA (POES)
MetOp
FengYun
NPOESS (to be launched in 2013)
The station consists of:
the antenna system;
the receiving unit with universal demodulator;
the computer interface board;
a set of connecting cables;
the software;
documentation.
Personal computer is not part of the standard Alice-SCTM
delivery configuration.
Software
The station is supplied with the software for:
control of acquisition and data recording to a PC hard disc
(Alisa Receiver®);
preliminary processing of HRPT data from METOP satellite
(METOP Tools)
visualisation and analysis of images (ScanMagic® LL).
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