Down to Earth: Receiving Data from Orbiting Observatories
An introduction to earth observation from satellites in polar orbit, the challenges that must be overcome in acquiring the data from the satellites, and how this is done at Space Ground Systems. Includes a demonstration showing a live data acquisition.
- Backend
- Real life
Speaker
Tom Hindenes
Product owner and team lead
Tom has 25 years of experience working with satellite data acquisition and processing systems. Most of those years have been spent programming a wide variety of functions for KONGSBERG Space Ground Systems products, including: tape storage, storage management, network distribution, processing orchestration, and system design. In addition he has worked with customer support, on-site installation, and customer training. Currently he is the product owner for all satellite acquisition systems, as well as team lead for the development team of those systems.
