The Data Collection System in Antarctica by Employing Satellites (g. Future Plan) (Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Coordinated Observations of the Ionosphere and the Magnetosphere in the Polar Regions : Part II)

The objective of this paper is to show the main aspects of Japanese program to stablish an effective and reliable system to inter and intra-continents communication network for data and information transmission, to collect meteorological and geophysical data from Antarctica by the remote sensing system at present and in the near future. The difficulties to obtain environmental data from the, Antarctic territory are well known. The employment of earth orbiting satellites appears specially adequate to clarify several aspects related with this problem. The global system comprises geostationary and polar orbiting satellites to obtain qualitative and quantitative data, derived from imagery and automatic ground-based sensing stations (unmanned) called Data Collection Platforms (DCPs)