International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 30-November 02, 1995 / Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada / The remote sensing industry is experiencing an unprecedented rush of activity to
deploy commercial and scientific satellites. NASA and its international partners are
leading the scientific charge with The Earth Observation System (EOS) and the
International Space Station Alpha (ISSA). Additionally, there are at least ten countries
promoting scientific/commercial remote sensing satellite programs. Within the United
States, commercial initiatives are being under taken by a number of companies
including Computer Technology Associates, Inc., EarthWatch, Inc., Space Imaging,
Inc., Orbital Imaging Corporation and TRW, Inc. This activity is due to factors
including: technological advances which have lead to significant reductions in the
costs to build and deploy satellites; an awareness of the importance of understanding
human impact on the ecosystem; and a desire to collect and sell data some believe will
be worth $1.5 billion (USD) per year within five years.
The success and usefulness of these initiatives, both scientific and commercial,
depends largely on the ease and cost of providing remotely sensed data to value added
resellers and end-users. A number of these spacecraft will provide an interface directly
to users. To provide these data to the largest possible user base, ground station
equipment must be affordable and the data must be distributed in a timely manner
(meaning seconds or minutes, not days) over commercial network and
communications equipment.
TSI TelSys, Inc. is developing ground station equipment that will perform both
traditional telemetry processing and the bridging and routing functions required to
seamlessly interface commercial local- and wide-area networks and satellite
communication networks. These products are based on Very Large Scale Integration
(VLSI) components and pipelined, multi-processing architectures. This paper
describes TelSys’ product family and its envisioned use within a ground station.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/608539 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Chesney, James R., Bakos, Roger |
| Contributors | TSI TelSys, Inc. |
| Publisher | International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Proceedings |
| Rights | Copyright © International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Relation | http://www.telemetry.org/ |
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