TCGI: Satellite Data Acquisition Systems

Creative Group
McLean, VA
1979

Developed TIROS-N satellite acquisition and data capture and processing systems for Belgium, Korea, India, and Singapore.

Controlled a circumpolar satellite acquisition system to acquire a raw datastream during a satellite pass, converted the stream into digital data, filtered the data and produced images in real time, and archived the full data stream for subsequent further analysis. Utilized a custom 8086 front-end processing system with a Data General back-end.

The first commercial application of 8086 processors. The backend of the system utilized Data General Nova computers.