Session
Session IX: Ground Systems
Location
Utah State University, Logan, UT
Abstract
As part of NOAA’s Environmental Satellite Processing and Distribution System (ESPDS) program, Solers created a cloud platform for satellite data management and processing. It consists of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) and Enterprise Product Generation (EPG) services, hosted in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environment, leveraging AWS cloud services and existing NOAA product generation algorithms. While this cloud platform was developed in the context of NOAA/NESDIS satellite data management and processing requirements, it also has tremendous applicability and cost effectiveness for small satellite data management and processing needs. An attractive method for ingesting data from small satellites is the AWS Ground Station. This can help small satellite operators save on costs of real estate, hardware/software, and labor to deploy and operate their own ground stations. The data is ingested via AWS-managed antennas, and made available for further processing in the AWS cloud using COTS RF/ baseband over IP transport services. Once this data has been ingested and made available, the flexible REST APIs from the EDM and EPG services in the AWS cloud make it easy and cost-effective for small satellite operators to catalog and process the data into consumable products, and make them available for access to end users.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Platform for Satellite Data Processing
Utah State University, Logan, UT
As part of NOAA’s Environmental Satellite Processing and Distribution System (ESPDS) program, Solers created a cloud platform for satellite data management and processing. It consists of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) and Enterprise Product Generation (EPG) services, hosted in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environment, leveraging AWS cloud services and existing NOAA product generation algorithms. While this cloud platform was developed in the context of NOAA/NESDIS satellite data management and processing requirements, it also has tremendous applicability and cost effectiveness for small satellite data management and processing needs. An attractive method for ingesting data from small satellites is the AWS Ground Station. This can help small satellite operators save on costs of real estate, hardware/software, and labor to deploy and operate their own ground stations. The data is ingested via AWS-managed antennas, and made available for further processing in the AWS cloud using COTS RF/ baseband over IP transport services. Once this data has been ingested and made available, the flexible REST APIs from the EDM and EPG services in the AWS cloud make it easy and cost-effective for small satellite operators to catalog and process the data into consumable products, and make them available for access to end users.
