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Operational Satellite Support at the U.S. Naval European Meteorology and Oceanography Center, Rota, Spain

The Naval European Meteorology and Oceanography Center (NEMOC) in Rota, Spain is the United States Navy's center for the production and distribution of value added meteorology and oceanography products within Europe, continental Africa, the Mediterranean, Black, and Baltic Seas. NEMOC Rota provides

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Operational Satellite Support at the U.S. Naval European Meteorology and Oceanography Center, Rota, Spain

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    1. Operational Satellite Support at the U.S. Naval European Meteorology and Oceanography Center, Rota, Spain

    2. The Command and its Mission

    3. Geographical Situation

    4. The Facility

    5. The Antenna Farm (1)

    6. The Antenna Farm (2)

    7. Equipment Distribution (1)

    8. Equipment Distribution (2)

    9. System Diagram

    10. System Diagram (full size)

    11. Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO) NRL Stennis Space Center NRL Monterey NLMOC Norfolk VA NCMOC Bahrain JTWF Pearl Harbor, HI NPMOC Yokosuka, Japan USSTRATCOM Offutt AFB Nebraska SACLANTC La Spezia, IT Applied Physics Lab, Johns Hopkins University NEMOC Detachments – Naples, Sicily, Crete Data & Custom Imagery Customers

    12. System Capabilities Fully automated ingestion, postprocessing, and distribution Over 3000 individual image products delivered daily Over 100 datasets delivered daily 24 hour Met7 and Met5 coverage Acquisition and distribution of all visible NOAA, DMSP, and SeaWifs passes

    13. System Characteristics (1) Dual Sparc Ultra-2 (puck & miranda) Ingest platforms Antenna control X-session hosting Dual Sparc Ultra-60 (titania & oberon) Postprocessing Distribution Intel 2xPIII 1.1Ghz Linux (snowblind) Scripted postprocessing and distribution

    14. System Characteristics (2) All Sparc platforms run Solaris 2.7 Linux platform runs stock RedHat 7.2 distribution All platforms run Terascan 3.1.2 Metsat (pdus) decryption SeaWiFS capture and processing DMSP/KG-44 control

    15. Signal Processing Discussion (1) Ultra 2’s Ingest and initial processing All data is transferred via RCP to the Ultra-60’s for local processing Some data is also FTP’ed to clients and the Supplemental Weather Radar (SWR) Host in-house X sessions for Teravision users; NFS crossmounts permit access to all available data

    16. Signal Processing Discussion (2) Ultra-60’s Finished products to web servers Subsets to FTP clients Full datasets to Linux platform Linux platform (snowblind) Generates all products accessible via http://www.nemoc.navy.mil/cgi-bin/sat_page.pl Static thumbnails and scaled imagery for looping to improve browser response times

    17. Signal Processing Discussion (3) snowblind (continued) True-color SeaWiFS processing Transparent and false-color overlay briefing products Ingest and postprocessing of datasets received remotely at the Sigonella, Sicily facility and delivered via FTP in near-real time All products generated via custom scripting based on Terascan and the netpbm utilities

    19. Web Presentation (1)

    20. Web Presentation (2)

    21. Web Presentation (3)

    22. Web Presentation (4)

    23. Web Presentation (5)

    24. Web Presentation (6)

    25. Imagery Sampler (1) – DMSP Visible Fine

    26. Imagery Sampler (2) – Metsat 5

    27. Imagery Sampler (3) - SeaWiFS

    28. Imagery Sampler (4) - SeaWiFS

    29. Imagery Sampler (5) – AVHRR MCSST

    30. Imagery Sampler (6) – SSMI Water Vapor

    31. System Performance Evaluation Extremely stable; > 140 days uptime – routine reboots not required Flexible, simple scripting via cshell and the Terascan functions GUI-based utilities ease administrative tasks but don’t get in the way of low-level functionality Comprehensive hypertext on-line documentation Responsive technical support

    32. Conclusion Terascan’s proven ability to perform in a mission-critical role has rendered it invaluable to US Navy operational support in the European theater. Together with the Linux operating system, it leverages open-source software and commodity hardware into a cost-effective, powerful, and flexible configuration, easily able to meet the requirements of a high-volume, high-throughput mission.

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