Data reception and processing infrastructure in Russia for Indian satellites

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By Vector1Media | 28 September 2007 |

SCANEX R&D Center announced the start of stereo images reception from Indian IRS-P5 Cartosat-1 satellite by its own stations in Russia. Under the license agreement, signed between SCANEX and ANTRIX, the first stereo pairs of the Russian territory were successfully acquired from the CartoSat-1 satellite at UniSCan ground station, installed in Samara. The received images were processed using the licensed software and meet the quality requirements of ANTRIX company. To enable stereo imaging of all the Russian territory, SCANEX Center undergoes certification of two more ground stations – in Magadan and Irkutsk – for CartoSat-1 data reception. In this way a network of data reception stations, unique in their capability to ensure near real-time access and in their coverage area, may provide the users of different regions with fresh high resolution images.

The Indian CartoSat-1 satellite is equipped with a two-camera optical stereo system, enabling to create 2.5 m resolution images in one pass. According to Russian and foreign photogrammetry experts, CartoSat-1 satellite supplies to modern market stereo pairs with the highest possible accuracy in its class and provides for quick order execution.

Introduction of direct CartoSat-1 stereo pairs’ reception enables to resolve a hard problem of the lack of updated topographic maps in a most efficient way.

SCANEX R&D Center Vice-President Olga Gershenzon said that creation of the infrastructure for stereo pairs’ reception from the Indian satellite will make it easier for the domestic users to obtain them and at the same time guarantees their quality.

“The multiyear experience of our company on the Russian market of space geoinformation shows that the start of foreign RS operators’ data reception at Russian ground stations enables to bring down considerably the initial costs of space information and to speed up customers’ orders processing. All in all, such a scheme, comparing to the imports of end-products, encourages the development and introduction of new domestic advanced technologies.

In addition, the Indian ANTRIX company, being the CartoSat-1 satellite operator, included Russian ground stations in the list of its international network of direct data reception. From now on the orders of other Russian companies for CartoSat-1 data will be processed using Russian stations thus stimulating further growth of the Russian industry in general and of the geoinformation market in particular.
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