On the design of the ground segment for the future hyperspectral satellite mission EnMAP

The ground segment of the future German hyperspectral satellite mission EnMAP (Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program; www.enmap.org) is developed by the Applied Remote Sensing Cluster and the German Space Operations Center at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The launch is planned for 2013. This paper describes the EnMAP mission - being currently in its detailed design phase - and focuses first on the analysis of the development approach for the ground segment formed by 15 subsystems. Second the ground segment and subsystems designs themselves with their relations to the space and user segments are detailed.