The ANBESS Test Payload

Author

Baker, Donald L. ; Canada, Raymond H., Jr. ; Prine, George D.

Author_Institution

NSTL Eng. Lab., Comput. Sci. Corp., Stennis Space Center, MS, USA

fYear

1980

fDate

8-10 Sept. 1980

Firstpage

350

Lastpage

356

Abstract

A low-power (36 Wh/day), microprocessor-controlled weather data telemetry system was developed to test the concept of using U.S. Coast Guard Aids-to-Navigation buoys as platforms for measuring nearshore weather. The μP, interfaced to a hardware arithmetic processor chip, reduces 128 samples of time series data to a short ASCII-coded engineering unit message. The message is transmitted hourly via a GOES satellite link in a format suitable for nearly direct transmission over the National Weather Service computer net. About 100 days of raw and processed data can be stored on a high-density cartridge tape recorder for evaluation of the satellite link, buoy motion effects and μP performance.

Keywords

atmospheric techniques; digital arithmetic; geophysics computing; low-power electronics; microprocessor chips; satellite links; satellite telemetry; time series; ASCII-coded engineering unit message; Anbess test payload; GOES satellite link; National Weather Service computer net; U.S. Coast Guard Aids-to-Navigation buoys; buoy motion effects; hardware arithmetic processor chip; high-density cartridge tape recorder; low-power microprocessor-controlled weather data telemetry system; nearshore weather; satellite link; time series data; Batteries; Electronics packaging; Navigation; Ocean temperature; Payloads; Sampling methods; Surges; Testing; Voltage; Wind speed;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS '80

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.1980.1151376

Filename

1151376