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Indian team install Radome in Antarctica
The National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Hyderabad is the nodal agency for satellite remote sensing data reception, archival, processing and dissemination in the country. NRSC Shadnagar ground station receives data from eleven Indian remote-sensing satellites and two foreign satellites at a station efficiency of 99%.
In order to improve the throughput of data product generation, Integrated Multi-mission Ground Segment for Earth Observation Satellites (IMGEOS) is implemented at NRSC, Shadnagar and the data products are regularly generated at IMGEOS facility, as part of user services. Complete ground station activities, right from payload programming and data acquisition to data product generation and dissemination in multi-mission mode, are automated. With the implementation of IMGEOS, processing capability has increased to 1000 products/day and data product delivery time is reduced to within an hour for emergency needs and 24 hours for normal needs (Standard products). NRSC is also operating a ground station (Svalbard, Norway) near North Pole through KSAT since 2007 for acquiring global data from IRS satellites.
NRSC has also established a ground station for IRS data reception at Bharati, Base Station of National Centre for Antarctica and Ocean Research (NCAOR), Antarctica. A polar Earth station has the advantage of visibility of maximum 10-11 satellite passes of polar orbiting satellites facilitating global coverage. During 2013, Data Reception System (DRS) to acquire satellite data and Data Communication System (DCS) and high speed satellite communication link to relay data to NRSC Shadnagar for data processing were established by a team consisting of NRSC and ECIL experts in April 2013 during the 32nd Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica (ISEA).
NRSC is hiring a transponder for services including (a) Raw data transfer using satellite link from Bharti-Antarctica to NRSC Shadnagar (b) Station monitoring & control from Shadnagar (c) Communication link between NRSC - NCAOR (Goa) – Antarctica.
DRS antenna terminal installation at Antarctica
The station has been made operational for Resourcesat-2 and RISAT-1 satellite data acquisition. Currently, an average 6-7 passes of Resourcesat-2 and 2-3 passes of RISAT-1 are being acquired daily. Automated data acquisition, data transfer chain and data integrated with IMGEOS for product generation were implemented for Cartosat-1, Resourcesat-2, Oceansat-2 and RISAT-1.
In summary, Remote Sensing Satellite data is acquired at (i) Shadnagar (ii) Svalbard & Tromso (iii) Other Indian Ground Stations at INCOIS & DEAL (iV) International Ground Stations - 5 Nos and (iv) Antarctica. The total downlink time in all these station is 1430 Hrs and 48 m.
The National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), Hyderabad is the nodal agency for satellite remote sensing data reception, archival, processing and dissemination in the country. NRSC Shadnagar ground station receives data from eleven Indian remote-sensing satellites and two foreign satellites at a station efficiency of 99%.
In order to improve the throughput of data product generation, Integrated Multi-mission Ground Segment for Earth Observation Satellites (IMGEOS) is implemented at NRSC, Shadnagar and the data products are regularly generated at IMGEOS facility, as part of user services. Complete ground station activities, right from payload programming and data acquisition to data product generation and dissemination in multi-mission mode, are automated. With the implementation of IMGEOS, processing capability has increased to 1000 products/day and data product delivery time is reduced to within an hour for emergency needs and 24 hours for normal needs (Standard products). NRSC is also operating a ground station (Svalbard, Norway) near North Pole through KSAT since 2007 for acquiring global data from IRS satellites.
NRSC has also established a ground station for IRS data reception at Bharati, Base Station of National Centre for Antarctica and Ocean Research (NCAOR), Antarctica. A polar Earth station has the advantage of visibility of maximum 10-11 satellite passes of polar orbiting satellites facilitating global coverage. During 2013, Data Reception System (DRS) to acquire satellite data and Data Communication System (DCS) and high speed satellite communication link to relay data to NRSC Shadnagar for data processing were established by a team consisting of NRSC and ECIL experts in April 2013 during the 32nd Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica (ISEA).
NRSC is hiring a transponder for services including (a) Raw data transfer using satellite link from Bharti-Antarctica to NRSC Shadnagar (b) Station monitoring & control from Shadnagar (c) Communication link between NRSC - NCAOR (Goa) – Antarctica.
DRS antenna terminal installation at Antarctica
The station has been made operational for Resourcesat-2 and RISAT-1 satellite data acquisition. Currently, an average 6-7 passes of Resourcesat-2 and 2-3 passes of RISAT-1 are being acquired daily. Automated data acquisition, data transfer chain and data integrated with IMGEOS for product generation were implemented for Cartosat-1, Resourcesat-2, Oceansat-2 and RISAT-1.
In summary, Remote Sensing Satellite data is acquired at (i) Shadnagar (ii) Svalbard & Tromso (iii) Other Indian Ground Stations at INCOIS & DEAL (iV) International Ground Stations - 5 Nos and (iv) Antarctica. The total downlink time in all these station is 1430 Hrs and 48 m.
