DEVELOPMENT OF THE DATA GENERATION, MANAGEMENT, AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM FOR GEOSTATIONARY OCEAN COLOR IMAGER IN KOREA OCEAN SATELLITE CENTER

Abstract

The government of Korea has planned the development of geostationary satellite for communication, ocean and meteorological purposes and been scheduled to be launched in late 2009. This satellite is called COMS and the ocean monitoring payload is the GOCI (geostationary ocean color imager). As an ocean satellite developing partner, KOSC (Korea Ocean Satellite Center) in KORDI (Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute) take in charge of primary data receiving and data distributor center. KOSC have several systems for data generation and management, distribution.