Introduction to Amazon Ground Station and its use cases

In this recipe, we will learn about Amazon Ground Station. We will also learn about the use cases of Amazon Ground Station.

Recipe Objective - Introduction to Amazon Ground Station and its use cases?

The Amazon Ground Station is a widely used service and is defined as a fully managed service that allows users to manage satellite communications, process data, and scale their operations without having to create or manage their ground station hardware. Weather forecasting, surface photography, telecommunication, and video broadcasting are just a few of the applications for satellites. Global satellite networks are built on the foundation of ground stations. Users have direct access to AWS services and the AWS Global Infrastructure, which includes a low-latency global fibre network, with AWS Ground Station. For example, Amazon S3 may be used to store downloaded data, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams can be used to manage data input from satellites, and Amazon SageMaker can be used to create bespoke machine learning applications to user's data sets. Paying solely for the actual antenna time utilised and relying on the global footprint of ground stations to download data when and where users need it can save them up to 80% on the cost of their ground station operations. There are no long-term commitments, and users get the freedom to increase their satellite communications on-demand as needed by their company.

Benefits of Amazon Ground Station

  • AWS Ground Station is a global network of ground stations located near AWS infrastructure regions. Users won't have to worry about buying, leasing, building, growing, or managing their satellite ground stations with AWS Ground Station and thus offers Ground Station as a service. At AWS, security is a top priority. As AWS customers, users'll have access to a facility and network architecture designed to satisfy the needs of the most security-conscious businesses. AWS Ground Station provides unrivalled data and physical security at no additional expense and thus its security users can trust. Users just pay for the actual antenna time users utilise with AWS Ground Station. There are no long-term commitments or additional costs. Users can use any antenna in the global AWS Ground Station network for a single fee and thus users can pay as they go. Users may downlink their satellite data directly into an AWS area for immediate processing thanks to multiple antennas at each of our geographically diversified AWS Ground Stations. Without scheduling delays or antenna conflicts, our Ground Station scheduling interface allows users to access their data when they need it and thus it provides Immediate data processing. Using the AWS Management Console and APIs, users can quickly schedule Contacts with their satellite. Contacts can be rescheduled or cancelled up to 15 minutes before their scheduled start time and thus it provides Self-service scheduling.

System Requirements

  • Any Operating System(Mac, Windows, Linux)

This recipe explains Amazon Ground Station and uses cases of Amazon Ground Station.

Use cases of Amazon Ground Station

    • It has a use case to deliver real-time processing

With AWS Ground Station, within seconds of receiving satellite data at the antenna system, Users can start processing it. In a matter of seconds, users can transform raw data into processed information or analysed knowledge. Today, SAR operators are using this capability to produce intelligence for first responders to use during the active search, rescue, and recovery operations.

    • It has a use case providing Cross Region Data Delivery

Using AWS Ground Station's global antenna network, users can run several simultaneous contacts from a single AWS Region using Cross Region Data Delivery. This means users just pay for the minutes they use the antenna, and users don't have to pay extra to transmit data back and forth between areas to analyse it. Users may collect real-time weather data to examine shifting climatic patterns around the world using AWS's low-latency, high-bandwidth global fibre network.

    • It has a use case providing a Global network of Antennas

The global network of antennas provided by AWS Ground Station allows users to communicate with their satellite numerous times every orbit. While instructing their satellites to execute the next mission, users can downlink vital satellite data to their AWS VPC within seconds after collection. Operators of Earth Observation satellites can now regularly update their archives with high-resolution imagery to improve monitoring and change detection applications that benefit businesses such as forest monitoring and agriculture.

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