Upgrading the Wallops command and data acquisition station for the GOES-R era

Peter G. Woolner; Robert N. Tye; Gregory P. Johnson; Philip L. Whaley

doi:10.1117/12.682895

1 September 2006 Upgrading the Wallops Command and Data Acquisition Station for the GOES-R era

Peter G. Woolner, Robert N. Tye, Gregory P. Johnson, Philip L. Whaley

Proceedings Volume 6300, Satellite Data Compression, Communications, and Archiving II; 63000J (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.682895
Event: SPIE Optics + Photonics, 2006, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The impact to NOAA's Wallops Command and Data Acquisition Station (WCDAS) of the additional capabilities of the GOES-R satellite series is explored. A short history of the WCDAS is presented along with changes and upgrades to the communications and computing systems seen as needed to support this new series of satellites. Also a comparison is made between existing services provided by WCDAS via the current GOES satellites and the future performance enhancements expected to be provided via GOES-R. For some parameters the capabilities of the GOES-R satellite are not currently known in sufficient detail to provide a sound basis for an upgrade path. In such cases, an outline of the expected limits is presented. The views presented here are those of the authors with significant years of experience in this field. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the NOAA GOES-R program Office and may not reflect the final GOES-R system architecture developed by the GOES-R contractor.

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Peter G. Woolner, Robert N. Tye, Gregory P. Johnson, and Philip L. Whaley "Upgrading the Wallops Command and Data Acquisition Station for the GOES-R era", Proc. SPIE 6300, Satellite Data Compression, Communications, and Archiving II, 63000J (1 September 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.682895

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