Referring to our news of 09 August, the anomaly affecting the availability of the Sentinel-5P Near Real Time data acquired at the Inuvik ground station relates to forest fires that have damaged the communication network link between the station and the European main land infrastructure where the data is processed.
This contingency is being managed by replanning of Sentinel-5P acquisitions to use only the Svalbard station to mitigate the temporary disruption in Inuvik nominal operations.The replanning is expected to be active from today 10/08/2023 12:00 UTC.
This configuration is expected to improve the Sentinel-5P Near Real Time data processing, although due to the reduced availability of downlink capacity on some orbits some gaps in NRT are still to be expected. There will be no overall loss of TROPOMI data, and the non time critical (OFFL) processing will proceed nominally.
The data acquired at Inuvik from the 07 August afternoon up to the above-mentioned reconfiguration dates are not lost and will be processed and made available as soon as feasible. Minor degradation in quality could be expected for all data acquired during the period of unavailability of the data downlinked to Inuvik. This is under investigation.
The situation is being monitored and return to nominal downlink scenario and full Near Real Time processing will be resumed as soon as feasible.
We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause to your activities.
Referring to our news of 09 August, the anomaly affecting the availabilityof the Sentinel-5P Near Real Time data acquired at the Inuvik ground station relates to forest fires that have damaged the communication network link between the station and the European main land infrastructure where the data is processed.
This contingency is being managed by replanning of Sentinel-5P acquisitions to use only the Svalbard station to mitigate the temporary disruption in Inuvik nominal operations. The replanning is expected to be active from today 10/08/2023 12:00 UTC.
This configuration is expected to improve the Sentinel-5P Near Real Time data processing, although due to the reduced availability of downlink capacity on some orbits some gaps in NRT are still to be expected. There will be no overall loss of TROPOMI data, and the non time critical (OFFL) processing will proceed nominally.
The data acquired at Inuvik from the 07 August afternoon up to the above-mentioned reconfiguration dates are not lost and will be processed and made available as soon as feasible. Minor degradation in quality could be expected for all data acquired during the period of unavailability of the data downlinked to Inuvik. This is under investigation.
The situation is being monitored and return to nominal downlink scenario and full Near Real Time processing will be resumed as soon as feasible.
We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause to your activities.