MICROCOM GOES GTX Satellite Transmitter
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MICROCOM DESIGN GOES DCP INFORMATION PAGE This web page summarizes the GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) Data Collection Platforms. The DCPs are part of the GOES Data Collection System (DCS). The DCS enables a large variety of environmental data to be relayed from point sources through GOES and back to Earth, from where these data are disseminated to the various system users. These point sources are called Data Collection Platforms (DCP), and can be are land, sea or mobile-based. On example of a DCP is shown below:
Microcom XpressSelf Contained DCP
The DCS allows a remote radio set or Data Collection Platform (DCP), which is land, sea, or mobile based, to transmit through the GOES and back to the NESDIS Wallops Command and Data Acquisition Station (WCDAS) at Wallops, Virginia. Currently, two GOES satellites - one in the East and one in the West - are used to support DCS mission requirements. From WCDAS, this data is selectively routed to the appropriate system users via communications links including Domestic satellite (DOMSAT), National Weather Service Telecommunications Gateway (NWSTG), the Internet and dial-up telnet access. User resource allocation and administration are conducted at the NESDIS Suitland Federal Center in Suitland, Maryland, via workstations connected to the DCS. NOAA presently supports over 10,000 remote DCPS. The DCS platforms transmit their uplinks to GOES at UHF (Ultra High Frequency). The UHF signals are then transponder on the GOES to an L-band composite signal received at WCDAS.
Microcom Design produces much of the equipemtn in the GOES DCS system. (For example the DAM NT system.) One of the most critical peices of the DCP is the GOES Satellite transmitter. Microcom Design's GTX is shown below and is integral to all of the DCP systems availabale form Microcom.
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