Online System for Hydro-Meteorological Data gathered via LEOSatellite Transmission

Abstract

Low Earth Orbit Satellites (LEOS) provide worldwide “nomadic” data-communication also for far-off regions, which are inaccessible by land-based wireless or geostationary (GEO) satellite systems. Since several years our working-group successfully applies LEOS data transmission to hydro-meteorological research, e.g., for eventtriggered water quality monitoring and sampling networks. To make these data instantaneously available to all coworkers and users worldwide, an online system for reception and decoding of the compressed data and its graphical visualization was developed. It contains a specific, fully automated email-client, an integrated data-base and a webinterface with dynamically created graphics and tables for the internet users.