Real-time satellite data transfer system for Siberian NOAA image database

Tohoku University (TU) in Sendai, Japan, and the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science (SBRAS) in Novosibirsk, Russia, are cooperating in an academic exchange program. One of the main themes is to construct the infrastructure because there is about 5,000 km distance between them. The main systems are a communication satellite network and a NOAA station built in Siberia. The received NOAA data are transferred to TU by this system in real-time. We report the current condition of the data transfer for NOAA AVHRR data which are received at Novosibirsk, Russia.