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Tasking and downlinkTasking and downlink, inside Space and satellite systems: level-0 to Level-2 processing chains, analysis-ready data production, catalogues and discovery, cloud-native geospatial formats and more. Every item is traced to its specification, from CEOS Analysis Ready Data framework to ISO 19115-1 (metadata), and runs on the open Observatory Protocol.
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01What it is
Everything on the ground that talks to spacecraft: gateways and teleports, user terminals, modems and software-defined radio, shared antenna networks, CCSDS protocol stacks, mission control, data processing and the spectrum coordination behind each earth station. Every platform, sensor, processing level and ground-segment step that turns remote measurements of the Earth into calibrated, analysis-ready evidence for a site, a region or a network. Each technology below carries what it is, what we do with it, and the standard it is drawn against.
Ground segment
Decommutation, calibration, geolocation and geophysical retrieval that turn raw downlink into usable products.
We design, integrate and operate.
CEOS Analysis Ready Data framework · ISO 19115-1 (metadata)
Ground segment
Products corrected and packaged to a common specification so users can analyse them without reprocessing.
We design and operate.
CEOS Analysis Ready Data product family specifications
Ground segment
Searchable catalogues of scenes and products with standard metadata.
We design, integrate and operate.
SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) specification · OGC API – Records
Ground segment
Tiled, chunked formats that let users read only the part of a large raster or array they need.
We design and integrate.
OGC Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF Standard · OGC Zarr Storage Specification
Ground segment
Ground truth, vicarious calibration and uncertainty reporting behind every product value.
We design and operate.
CEOS Working Group on Calibration and Validation · QA4EO (CEOS quality assurance framework)
Ground segment
Automated chains from request to delivered product for time-critical uses such as fire and flood.
We design, integrate and operate.
OGC API – Processes · OGC Sensor Planning Service 2.0
Ground segment
Licence terms, distribution conditions and entitlements attached to every product and enforced at access.
We design and operate.
ISO 19115-1 (constraints metadata) · Remote Sensing Space Systems Act (Canada)
Ground segment
Compute co-located with the ground station that screens and extracts results before backhaul.
We design, integrate, deploy and operate.
ETSI GS MEC 003 (MEC framework and reference architecture)
Remote sensing and Earth observation
Choosing what to acquire and when, modelling revisit, look angle and cloud risk against need.
We design and operate.
OGC API – Connected Systems Part 2 (commands and tasking) · OGC Sensor Planning Service 2.0
02Architecture
Tasking and downlink draws on 3 domains and 24 layers of the spectrum; the highlighted layers carry this area. It speaks 5 of the protocol’s 8 core functions.
Orbits and constellations
8
Spacecraft buses and platforms
9
Communications payloads, NTN and direct-to-device
9
Inter-satellite and space-to-ground links
7
Earth observation payload classes
10
Tracking, telemetry and command and space safety
9
Launch, licensing and regulation
8
Frontier and research
6
Gateways and teleports
8
User terminals
9
Baseband, modems and software-defined radio
8
Ground-station-as-a-service and antenna networks
7
CCSDS protocol stacks
9
Mission control and flight dynamics
7
Data downlink, processing and distribution
8
Earth station spectrum coordination and interference
7
01JoinIdentity, attestation quote, signed policy.
02AdmitAdmitted for a stated scope, nothing wider.
03DescribeWhat, where, how and by whom, with calibration.
04TimeOne clock across the grid, with its error bound.
05ObserveEvery value with quality and provenance.
06QualifyTested against the specification, state on record.
07FederateSigned exchange across grids and trust domains.
08OrchestrateSoftware and configuration by signed plan.
03On the grid
The open networks on the grid today, over real relief and the geodesic cells we count them into, filtered to the space domain this area serves. A site built here enrols into the same grid.
04In the field
6 deployment scenarios from the sector research that rely on tasking and downlink.
Government and public safety05Open and enterprise
The open counterpart lives on the main site for anyone to read and run. The enterprise service is designed, deployed and operated with you, under contract.
Open, on the main site
Enterprise, on this site
06The rest of the line
Survey, design, deployment and operation for tasking and downlink. The form names who receives your details.
Talk to uscontact@observatory.globalTasking and downlink, inside Space and satellite systems: level-0 to Level-2 processing chains, analysis-ready data production, catalogues and discovery, cloud-native geospatial formats and more. Every item is traced to its specification, from CEOS Analysis Ready Data framework to ISO 19115-1 (metadata), and runs on the open Observatory Protocol.
The open counterpart lives on the main site for anyone to read and run. The enterprise service is designed, deployed and operated with you, under contract.
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