88th Annual Meeting (20-24 January 2008)

Tuesday, 22 January 2008
NPOESS Field Terminal Segment
Exhibit Hall B (Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Joseph Bradley, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Omaha, NE
The NPOESS Field Terminal Poster will display and the staff in attendance will respond to questions and discuss with attendees the following topics:

• Proposed Architecture including processing and storage requirements as we know them

• Concept of Operations of the NPOESS Field Terminal

• General Physical Size, Weight and estimated Cost as currently anticipated

• Availability of the NPOESS Field Terminal Software

• Schedule of events for development and demonstration of the NPOESS Field Terminal DPE Software

Recommendations for pictures and diagrams to be included on the poster:

• Globe with the three satellites

• Aircraft Carrier

• Hummer

• Illustration of a Typical Antenna with chart of HRD & LRD reception parameters

• Reception Station Circle with Satellite Field of View for a nominal location

• Graph of received contact times for a nominal location

• Chart of received Sensors and EDRs mapped to HRD & LRD (reflecting Restructured Program Proposal)

• Satellite Imagery (Probably use MODIS for example)

• System Architecture Diagram

• Data Processing Element (DPE) Architecture Diagram

• Charts of DPE Minimum Required Processing & Storage

• High Level Timeline of Events

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