Patent ID: 8565670
Filing Date: 2013-10-22
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. A device comprising a plurality of data reception and recording terrestrial stations provided with storage means for storing data, each terrestrial station being associated with means for receiving observation data coming from at least one satellite in orbit around the Earth, wherein: the observation data received from at least one satellite are and remain distributed in said storage means of the various reception and recording terrestrial stations, each reception and recording terrestrial station is functionally connected to the other reception and recording terrestrial stations by at least one digital network and is provided with at least one module, called a management module, adapted so that the various reception and recording terrestrial stations are interconnected with one another by the various management modules via said at least one digital network, according to an architecture called a satellite grid, adapted to allow permanent and transparent shared access to said observation data coming from at least one satellite, which are recorded in a distributed fashion in said storage means of the various reception and recording terrestrial stations, said satellite grid being adapted to make all the observation data recorded in a distributed fashion in the various reception and recording terrestrial stations accessible and viewed as a single set of observation data from any access point of said at least one digital network.