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Data Flow and Workflow Organization - The Data Management for the TerraSAR-X Payload Ground Segment
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Article by Meinhard Wolfmüller, Daniele Dietrich, Edgar Sireteanu, Stephan Kiemle, Eberhard Mikusch and Martin Böttcher
published in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING, VOL. 47, NO. 1, JANUARY 2009
Abstract
The payload ground segment (PGS) for the recently launched German radar satellite, TerraSAR-X,
performs the operational data management of the acquired satellite data.
This comprises well-known functions such as reception, systematic and
ondemand processing, archiving and cataloguing, ordering, and dissemination
of digital Earth-observation products.
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In addition, it comprises new functions
like large-scale multimode acquisition ordering by users, integration with a commercial service segment,
and new interfaces and workflows within the complete ground
segment.
The TerraSAR-X PGS is based on the Data Information andManagement System (DIMS),
the multimission data-handling infrastructure of the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD)
at the German Aerospace Center. The development and integration
of the new functions and complex workflows for TerraSAR-X were achieved and successfully tested on time.
After the support of commissioning phase for five months, the system is now operational. As an intended side effect,
the PGS for TerraSAR-X is, in several aspects, a pattern being reused for upcoming future missions,
thus substantially reducing overall developmental costs. This paper investigates features of the
TerraSAR-X PGS that enable the reuse in a multimission environment. It summarizes
the achieved enhancements and extensions of DIMS to support the TerraSAR-X mission. Special emphasis is placed on
the implementation of the request workflow initiated by user orders and the corresponding data flow within the
distributed DFD multimission facility.
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