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Tour of the Center for Rapid Environmental Assessment & Terrain Evaluation |
CENTER TOUR |
| Acquisition Station and Systems | ||
| Antennas | ||
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X-Band Antenna The X-Band Antenna is a TeraScan© 4.5-Meter (18-ft.) Polar Satellite Tracking Antenna for reception from polar-orbiting satellites that broadcast data in the X-band range, specifically the NASA EOS satellites Terra-1 and Aqua-1. |
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L-Band Antenna The L-Band Antenna is a TeraScan© 1.5-Meter Polar Satellite Tracking Antenna for reception from polar-orbiting satellites in the L-band range, specifically NOAA TIROS-N satellites and ORBView-2. |
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| Aquisition Systems | ||
Antenna Recievers Receivers control the antennas and translate the X and L Band transmissions. |
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Aquisition Workstations There are two acquisition systems, one for each antenna for downloading and temporarily storing satellite data. The raw data are sent via the University's network backbone to the Processing Cluster on Main Camput. These systems have 30 days storage capacity should there be a network failure. |
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| Processing Station and Lab | ||
| Processing Cluster |  |
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| The main processing system for CREATE Data consists of a 5-Node Linux Cluster, running TeraScan© Direct-Broadcast processing software. Integrated to the processing cluster is a robust storage system totaling over 15 Terabytes of on-line storage. | ||
CREATE PROCESSING SYSTEM- TERASCAN SYSTEM v. 3.3 Linux 5-node Cluster 3 NAS Drives = 15 Terabytes Storage |
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Data received from the Antenna Aquisition Systems is processed here. Raw data from MODIS and NOAA satellites are processed into usable imagery and data products, then stored for archival purposes and analysis. |
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| CREATE Remote Sensing Lab | ||
| Research and further processing of remote sensing data occurs in the CREATE Lab. Here, researchers and students integrate the Direct-Broadcast imagery and data within their research projects. | ||
| Systems- -5 Dell 470 Dual Processor Workstations -2 Macintosh Dual Processor G5s |
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| Software Tools- -SeaSpace TeraScan© (Groundstation Data Processing Software) -RSI ENVI -ESRI ArcGIS -Leica ERDAS -Clark Labs IDRISI |
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