| Summary: | During the Antarctic campaign 1989-1990, a NOAA-HRPT receiving station was installed at the Italian Base, Mario Zucchelli Station, at Terra Nova Bay. The receiving station is operational when the base is open, usually from mid-October to mid-February. Three NOAA polar orbiting satellites are normally in operation at the same time, at the present they are NOAA-15, NOAA-17, NOAA-18. During the campaign 1998-1990 was installed a new dual-receiving HRPT station to get also DMSP (Defence Meteorological Satellites Program of USA) satellites and currently we receive three DMSP satellites f-13, f-14 and f-15. At the present about fifty passes per day are acquired and processed each day reaching a total of around 4500 passes per expedition. All data acquired during campaigns are stored on DDS tape, which format is changed during years. Up to now more than 7 TB of data are stored on different media (from 8mm tapes to DDS4 tapes), regarding a period of time from V to XXII expedition. In order to achieve a more flexible and reliable system to access all the above data, in 2005, a process to copy to Hard-Disk storage in RAID mode, has been started. The activity is a work in progress, in the meantime the opportunity to realize a web application to process and distribute data to scientific community has been planned. We created a working prototype system based on a LAMP open source architecture (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and the TERASCAN software (from SeaSpace Corp.) to process and archive remote sensing data. The demo provides a web form to query the relational database containing all data related to each raw acquired satellite pass and as final result a quicklook of the requested pass is showed. This demo is just a first step of an application that in the future will be able to supply to the user a valid tool to navigate in entire data archive and eventually getting products such AVHRR images, TOVS profile, ARGOS data or extracting the complete satellite pass. Unpublished Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Roma, Italy ...
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