Global Imaging, Inc

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In the Central Asian Republics, water resources management is critically dependent on accurate forecasts of river flows. The effectiveness and efficiency of irrigation systems operations and reservoir operations for power generation depend on how well these countries can forecast stream flows in their international rivers. The National Weather Service (NWS) worked with United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to provide assistance to the Central Asian countries to improve water management in the Aral Sea basin. The NWS and USAID asked Global Imaging to implement the NWS River Forecast System in prototype river basins in Central Asia to provide snowmelt forecasts. These forecasts are critically important as the majority of the inflows to the Aral Sea are produced by snowmelt during the spring. Global Imaging worked with Central Asian hydrometeorology agencies to develop common data formats and select the prototype river basins. Those agencies provided historical precipitation, temperature, and streamflow data for the basins, and Global Imaging performed data analysis, model calibration , and forecast system initialization.

Global Imaging specializes in the design and installation of completely automated UNIX and LINUX-based weather and environmental satellite ground systems. The company presently manufactures and sells a complete line of hardware and software for receiving data from all of the world’s geostationary and polar orbiting weather satellites. Company hardware products include antenna and pedestal structures, integrated LNA/Feed and downconverters, satellite receivers, and bit/frame synchronizers for L, S, and X-band transmissions. Software includes programs for data ingest, data processing, data distribution, and data viewing.

RANET is an international collaboration of National Meteorological-Hydrological Services (NMHS) and related regional and national entities dedicated to improving rural and remote community access to products and services such as forecasts, warnings, and observations. The program original began in Africa through a few pilot country activities, but it has since expanded to include programs in Asia and the Pacific. In late fiscal year 2008, RANET will also begin projects in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), thereby giving the program a near-global mandate. Under contract from NOAA NWS, Global Imaging delivered the GEONETCAST Americas earth stations for CATHALAC in Panama and the IMN in Costa Rica.

Reception of NPP and NPOESS will also be possible once these craft are in orbit. Global Imaging has been selected to provide the AQUA/TERRA/NPP/NPOESS ground systems and software. This includes the surveillance of Canada’s Arctic region, including its ocean approaches, the detection and tracking of foreign vessels, and support operations globally. Polar Epsilon’s capability to enhance situational awareness is due to its ability to provide all-weather day/night surveillance in areas where other sensors are limited or unable to operate. Polar Epsilon has completed its definition phases and is now in implementation for all capabilities including Arctic Surveillance.

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