Improvements of the PLANET System for Real-Time Satellite Data Transmission During the HAIC-HIWC Darwin Field Campaign

Sandra Turner (1) , Jean-Marc Gaubert (2) , Remy Gallois (2) , Thibault Dacla (2) , Ingrid Mullie (2) , Aurélien Bourdon (3) , Fabien Dezitter (4) , Alice Grandin (4) , Alain Protat (5) , Rodney Potts (5) , Alfons Schwarzenboeck (6) , John Walter Strapp (7)

1 CNRM - Centre national de recherches météorologiques
2 ATMOSPHERE, Systèmes & Services
3 ADAM - Adaptive Distributed Applications and Middleware
4 Airbus [France]
5 BoM - Australian Bureau of Meteorology [Melbourne]
6 LaMP - Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique
7 Met Analytics Inc. [Toronto]

The PLANET System was used for real-time satellite data transmission during the HAIC-HIWC Darwin field campaign (January to March 2014). The basic system was initially providing aircraft tracking, chat, weather text messages (METAR, TAF, etc.), and aeronautical information (NOTAMs) in a standalone application. In the framework of the HAIC project, many improvements were made in order to fulfill requirements of the onboard and ground science teams for the field campaign. The aim of this paper is to present the main improvements of the system that were implemented for the Darwin field campaign. New features of the system are related to the hardware component, the communication protocol, weather and tracking display, geomarkers on the map, and image processing and compression before onboard transfer.

Domaines: Océan, Atmosphère

Sandra Turner, Jean-Marc Gaubert, Remy Gallois, Thibault Dacla, Ingrid Mullie, et al.. Improvements of the PLANET System for Real-Time Satellite Data Transmission During the HAIC-HIWC Darwin Field Campaign. SAE Technical papers, 2015, ⟨10.4271/2015-01-2147⟩. ⟨hal-01981018⟩