International Polar Year: STG DLR ground segment operations capabilities

1. International Polar Year: STGDLR ground segment operations capabilities Erhard DiedrichHead of Division International Ground Segment DLR – German Remote Sensing Data Center Montreal, 05-March-2008

2. Capabilities to support the International Polar YearIntegrated EO Ground Segment of DLR

3. Payload Ground Segment • Cluster Applied Remote Sensing • (DFD und IMF) • User and service element interface • Interface to mission planning • Data reception and data circulation • Processing, archiving and catalogue • Product distribution • Instrument Operations and Calibration • Depending on instrument • Instrument system engineering • Instrument operations • Calibration and long term monitoring Functional Structure of the DLR EO Ground Segment • Mission Operations • German Space Operations Center • (GSOC) • Satellite operations and control • Mission planning and commanding • Monitoring • Flight dynamics

4. TerraSAR-X ERS-2, ENVISAT IRS-Series CHAMP, GRACE Receiving Stations Service-Elements & Users Processing Archiving, Distr. Oberpfaffenhofen Neustrelitz Missions, Facilities and Users

5. Data Acquisition within the EO Ground Segment • Development of Global Payload Ground Station Network to serve mission needs: near real time data acquisition and processing, fast access to data, remote control of receiving stations • New technology concepts for data reception: higher data rates and usage of optical communication technology • Stations are embedded in overall system operations for ordering, reception and distribution of payload data from national, European and international EO missions • Engineering und system integration of EO ground segments is performed for national (TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X, EnMAP, etc.) and European (e.g. Sentinel) missions

6. National and International Station Overview PermanentNeustrelitz (Germany) 3 LSX-band 7.3 m, LS-band 4.0 m, VHFOberpfaffenhofen (Germany) X-band 3.6 m, L-band 2.4 m, L-band 4.0 m X-band (5,6 m) for European Space Imaging O‘Higgins (Antarctic) LSX-band 9.0 m Chetumal (Mexico) LSX-band 9.0 m Transportable Ny Álesund (with GFZ, Spitzbergen) X-band 4.0 m Recife (Brazil) L-band 0.9 m

7. Satellite data received by DFD ground stations • In Neustrelitz • Ground stations primarily for high data rate reception in Europa • ERS-2, Envisat(ESA, national) • IRS-1C/IRS-1D (Euromap) IRS-P3 (Euromap, national) • Champ, Grace(national) • Koronas-F (national) MarocTubsat (national) • Orbview-2 (Orbimage) • TerraSAR-X SAR, IGOR, TT&C (national/Infoterra) • IRS-P6 / IRS-P5 (Resource-Sat, CartoSat) • ALOS (ESA) • In Oberpfaffenhofen • IKONOS Regional Operations Center (GeROC) (European Space Imaging) • Ground stations primarily for low data rate reception in Europa • NOAA, Metop (national) • Meteosat, MSG (national) • Terra,Aqua(national, ESA) • International stations network in O’Higgins, Chetumal, Ny Alesund • Ground stations for missions and commercial customers • ERS-2 (SAR and LBR), TerraSAR-X (SAR, IGOR, TT&C), Landsat 5, IRS, NOAA, Champ, Grace, Terra / Aqua, TanDEM-X, optional ENVISAT

8. Ground Stations I Neustrelitz 53.3° N 13.1° O ERIS Chetumal / Mexico 18.5° N 88.2° W ERS-2, IRS-Series, TerraSAR-X ERS-2, Landsat 5, Cartosat, ENVISAT, CHAMP, GRACE MODIS

9. Ground Stations II Station Ny Alesund German Antartic Receiving Station 78.2° N 15.4° O 63.3° S 57.9° W GFZ-DLR S-Band Station ERS-2, TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X Champ, Grace ENVISAT? TOR/IGOR TerraSAR-X. TanDEM-X

10. y t x Station Detail Oberpfaffenhofen • OP data reception focused on data from sensors MODIS, NOAA-AVHRR and the Meteosat / MSG / METOP sensors • Data service for e.g. World Data Center of Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere • Wide range of atmosphere, biosphere or climate research relevant products • Product models (for archiving and retrieval) specialized for climate and time series analysis Single Scenes „Geo-Time-Cubes“

11. Station DetailGerman Antarctic Receiving Station (GARS) at O‘Higgins The station is located at the Antarctic Peninsula in the vicinity of the Chilean Antarctic Base General Bernardo O’Higgins (63.32° S 57.90W) and is designed for autarchy in operation • Antenna system 9m for S/X-band data reception and S-band data uplink • Data primary storage (MDA DAS), redundant • Multi-mission data processing equipment (ACS and Kongsberg) • Insnec Cortex High Rate and TT&C equipment, redundant • VLBI data reception and recording capability

12. GARS in deep Antartic winter

13. GARS ERS-1/2 acquisition summary 1991 - 2006 Blue 1 pass Green 3 – 5 passes Yellow 6 – 13 passes Orange 14 – 27 passes Red - 42 passes Magenta > 43 passes

15. Super spectral data (MODIS) from South Shetland Islands

16. Ground station summary and outlook • Stations in use • Neustrelitz: national missions and special focus on NRT applications • Oberpfaffenhofen: Terra, Aqua, Eumetcast-Systems for MSG and Ozone-SAF, IKONOS Regional Operations Center • GARS Antarctic Peninsula : currently campaign wise operations • Chetumal Mexico: support to missions and regional needs • Future outlook • GARS: capability of whole year operations from 2009 on • TanDEM-X with the challenge of 3 polar stations in full use • Current investigations for a station location in northern Canada

17. Summary • EO Ground Segment • Multi mission integrated EO ground segment in place • Ground segment services for • National missions • European missions • Selected international missions • Future outlook • Further extension of station capability • Further national missions, major effort for TanDEM-X • Support of IPY is a major thematic priority