Information and computing maintenance for the regional satellite operational monitoring system

The article discusses the experience of supporting a regional operational satellite monitoring system. Based on NASA IOPP free & open source software, a set of programs has been created to automate the reception and automated processing of incoming satellite information. The development is primarily focused on data coming from the satellite receiving station, however, it also deals with the interpretation of data received via the Internet. A three-stage scheme of distributed processing and data conversion is implemented. The output goes to the local satellite data storage. A collection of specialized multi-channel raster images is also being formed for quick visualization of images in a geographic information web system. The current version of the system performs processing from eight different sensors installed on several satellites.