The FRS-68010-a new ground station concept for the acquisition and analysis of NOAA HRPT data from a spatially limited area of interest

Author

Wegener, Michael

Author_Institution

Defence Sci. & Technol. Organ. Surveillance Res. Lab., Salisbury, SA, Australia

Volume

27

Issue

1

fYear

1989

fDate

1/1/1989 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

94

Lastpage

98

Abstract

A concepts for NOAA (US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) ground station using a pointing array of Yagi-type antenna instead of a tracking disk is presented. The antenna configuration provides a sufficient signal level for the reliable acquisition of high resolution picture transmission (HRPT) data of spatially limited area of interest. A 68010-based microcomputer system is used to store, retrieve, and display the data. The author´s original intent was to process the data on the FRS-68010 system, but in light of the recently greatly increased availability, in Australia, of PC-type microcomputer hardware and software it was decided to transfer the data to one of these machines and utilize commercially available software for data processing

Keywords

antenna arrays; atmospheric measuring apparatus; atmospheric techniques; geophysics computing; ground support systems; oceanographic equipment; oceanographic techniques; satellite ground stations; telecommunication equipment; telecommunication systems; FRS-68010; NOAA HRPT; Yagi-type antenna; atmosphere; computer data storage; data acquisition; data processing; data retrieval; geophysics; ground station concept; high resolution picture transmission; microcomputer system; ocean; pointing array; satellite ground station; telecommunication; Antenna arrays; Australia; Availability; Displays; Information retrieval; Microcomputers; Satellite ground stations; Signal resolution; Spatial resolution; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0196-2892

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/36.20279

Filename

20279