Satellite, GIS and GPS

Satellites

Basics

• NASA
• ESA
• Group on Earth Observation
• EU's GeoViQua FP7 project - QUAlity aware VIsualization for the Global Earth Observation System of systems
• ESA - Sentinel Technical Manuals
• MIT
• DVB.org - Digital Video Broadcast - DBV-S (satellite) - C (cable) - T (terrestial, i.e. over the air) -IPTV (IP)
• MHP.org - Multimedia Home Platform - DVB-MHP
• Eutelsat
• SES-Astra - parent company of Astra sat's - channel guides etc
• IL - The Israeli Network - www.tin.tv
• BE - Satelliet-Electronics Nieuwmoer
• BE - SpaceMirror.be
• BE - TV-Vlaanderen
• NL - satellite startpagina
• NL - satbox.nl - tip van Mr Mets
• sat4all - Linux Dreambox
• Astra Internet

Tracking

• Real time satellite tracking
• RTL-Software Defined Radio based on the RTL2832U chipset, a cheap ~$30 USB dongle that offers a computer based radio scanner for receiving live radio signals. Depending on the particular model it could receive frequencies from 500 kHz up to 1.75 GHz

Legal aspects

• DE - SatDSig - Satellitendatensicherheitsgesetz

Services

• EU - GMES - G-Mosaic service
• EU - GMES - Dolphin
• EU - Copernicus (replacing GMES)
• Digital Globe - commercial provider
• UNOSAT

Conditional access

• EU - Seca - Societe de Controle d'Access
• FR - Nagra - Mediaguard (used by Canal+, TV-Vlaanderen, ...)

GPS

• Peter Bennet - GPS info - tip from SVDB
• Navstar - GPS operations - tip from SVDB

GIS and navigation

Basics

• here.com - ex-Navteq, ex-Nokia
• maps.google.com
• DE - 52 degrees North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software GmbH.
• DE - con terra
• DE - con terra- security manager