Systems Product Development

Omitron's Ground Systems Product Development engineers have extensive experience and a consistent track record designing, developing, and deploying remote sensing satellite data ground receiving and processing systems. These systems have been used operationally 24 hours a day, 365 days a year by civilian and DoD government agencies, and by commercial clients to receive and preprocess real time multispectral imagery from polar orbiting and geostationary meteorological satellites. Our Ground Systems Product Development group will design, develop and customize ground receiving and data processing systems to meet your requirements for stationary site, transportable and mobile applications.

Our engineering team has direct experience developing ground system hardware and real time software in support of the following satellite programs:

GOES-7 Mode AAA VAS
GOES -8 and -9 GVAR - all operational modes
TIROS-N series and TIROS KLM-series LAC, GAC, HRPT (direct readout), HRPT-2X (bent-pipe), STIP, and SAIP (TIP and AMSU).
Meteosat A- and B-format PDUS downlinks
DMSP OLS RTD
Shared Processing Various C-band products from NOAA and DoD (e.g., SSMT, SSMT2, SSMI, EDDR, QDDR)

Omitron's Ground Systems Products Development areas of expertise include:

Systems Engineering

  • Functional and Performance Requirements Definition and Analysis
  • Concept of Operation
  • Detailed Hardware and Software Specifications and Design
  • Interface Control Documentation

Systems Development

  • Real-time C, C++, and assembler software design and development for embedded systems, and networked client-server workstation processors
  • Applications processing, including:
    • Raw data capture and data processing through Level 1 earth located/calibrated data sets
    • Quick-look, moving window displays for user selectable spectral bands
    • Real-time remapping of meteorological satellite multispectral data into standard planar map projections (e.g., mercator, polar stereographic, lambert conformal)
  • Experience with real-time UNIX, Windows-NT, OS-9, VRTX and other multitasking operating systems
  • Ethernet, FDDI, IBM Escon fiber, and TCP/IP, NFS, and FTP communications protocols.
  • Various graphical user interface (GUI) systems, including X-Motif and Windows NT
  • Custom hardware design and development, including multilayer surface mounted technology (SMT) satellite data processing boards using reconfigurable field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)

Systems Installation and Deployment

  • Preparation of test plans and procedures documents
  • Factory and on-site acceptance testing
  • Post delivery support