Leveraging CSPP: Building a cloud based direct broadcast processing system

Reducing the time that it takes to have useful satellite information is very important because timely access allows for more informed decision making.  This is especially true in time critical situations like disaster response and financial market analysis.  One way to achieve reductions in the overall time between information capture and delivery to use the direct broadcast from weather satellites.

In this work, we describe a state driven satellite information system that captures a satellite’s direct broadcast signal and uses cloud-based resources to provide end-user controlled processing.  The system takes advantage of the reliability and customizability of Amazon Web Services to provide fast and reliable access to a system that takes the direct broadcast signal and leverages the CSPP software as well as dynamically supplied end-user processing modules to produce a user desired information product.

Finally, we describe the development process and how a flexible design allowed for changes as the capabilities of the processing platform evolved and the lessons we learned from the process.