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Satellite Reconnaissance

Support of Personnel and Development of Components for SAR-Lupe

Projects: E-SGA, FSLGS and FSLGS archive

Client: OHB System, end customer: Bundesministerium der Verteidigung (German Federal Ministry of Defence), Bundesamt für Wehrtechnik und Beschaffung (German Federal Office of Defence Technology and Procurement)

Start in 2005 - completion in 2010

SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar)-Lupe is a German satellite reconnaissance system which consists of 5 small satellites and a ground control station. The FSLGS (French SAR-Lupe Ground Segment) is the corresponding ground segment of the SAR-Lupe system for the French armed forces. The E-SGA (“Europäisierung der satellitengestützen Aufklärungâ€, Europeanisation of satellite-based reconnaissance) project saw the development of the interface which allows to connect SAR-Lupe to the FSLGS.

This ground segment permits the French armed forces to benefit from the performances of the SAR-Lupe system, such as:

  • reception and processing of raw data
  • automatic operation of the FSLGS
  • interface to the customer
  • data processing
  • storage
  • manual operation by users

megatel supported the main contractor OHB System in the development of the corresponding French ground segment with a team of intermittently more than ten experts. In the framework of the E-SGA project, we extended the system and included the required interface connecting SAR-Lupe and the FSLGS. Furthermore, we turned the system into a multitenant application so that it can also be used by potential users from other European partner nations in the future.
The system component responsible for storing satellite images, the FSLGS archive, has been entirely developed at megatel.

Our services covered various areas of the three projects, e.g.

  • development of the client-server system
  • development of Windows services and of the bilingual (English and French) graphic user interface
  • database integration Oracle
  • integration of the geographic information system ArcGIS
  • development of the storage module FSLGS Archive

Tools and Programming

The programming language used was C#, whereas we worked with Rational ClearQuest in order to track bugs and changes.


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