Space Informatics Network Experiment (SPINE): A Paper Presented to the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing on the Application of AGRISPINE.

• Main Author: Green,K
• Other Authors: ROYAL AIRCRAFT ESTABLISHMENT FARNBOROUGH (ENGLAND)
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1983
• Subjects: Cartography and Aerial Photography; Astronautics; Radio Communications; *Aerial photography; *Data transmission systems; Western Europe; Artificial satellites; Agriculture; Communication satellite terminals; *SPINE(Space Informatics Network Experiment); *AGRISPINE Project; Landsat satellites; Greenland; Rae; glacier; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA130361; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA130361

The Royal Aircraft Establishment is a participant in the international Space Informatics Network Experiment (SPINE). This project has reached a pre-operational stage in which network nodes (four stations at present) regularly transmit LANDSAT remote sensing data for onward processing at the receiving stations. A further project, AGRISPINE, has been conceived as a suitable application, using the SPINE infrastructure, to demonstrate the advantages of satellite communications in the transfer of bulk digital data for fields of research where rapid delivery of data is essential. A number of time-dependent tasks have been chosen to take part in this experiment; these include, the long-term monitoring of crops and forest growth at test sites within the Uk (hence the name AGRISPINE), glacier movement in Greenland and sea ice characteristics in the Gulf of Finland. The principal investigators for these applications, under the leadership of the RAE, have formed an agreement to participate in AGRISPINE over the UK growing season- March until Novembner 1982.