1. The Data Information and Management System (DIMS)
Wilhelm Wildegger, DLR, DFD
Version

2. Earth Observation from Space
Data Acquisition
Application
Distribution
Archiving
Product Generation
Calibration
DFD, W. Wildegger

3. Support for Numerous Missions
EnMAP
Support for Numerous Missions
TanDEM-X
Mission Examples
TerraSAR-X
National Missions European Missions International Missions
METOP
ENVISAT
Airborne Imaging
Terra & Aqua
CHAMP
SRTM
Product Examples
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4. Specific and General Tasks
Users
User Information Services EOWEB®
DIMS
Product Library
Archive
Inventory
Order Manage-ment
Online/ Offline Delivery
Data Information and Management System (DIMS)
General tasks, common to all missions and sensors
Multi-Mission System
Production Control
Atmospheric
Radar
Specific tasks: Processing of data
Processing Systems
Optical
DFD, W. Wildegger

5. DIMS Facility DIMS Short, Medium and Long Term Archiving User Systems
Pickup Point
EOWEB® User Information Service
DIMS
Operating Tool
UIS Loader/ Interface
Ordering Control
Online/Offline
Prod. Gen.& Delivery
Product Library
Short, Medium and Long Term Archiving
Production
Control
Monitoring & Alarm
Ingestion System
Processing System
Post-Processing
Data Flow
Pickup Point
Control Flow
DFD, W. Wildegger

6. DIMS, some numbers Today (Oberpfaffenhofen and Neustrelitz)
ca. 50 processing systems connected to DIMS
ca product transfers per month
ca. 100 product types
ca. 1,000,000 products
ca. 6.7 Mio. files
ca. 200 TByte of data
DFD, W. Wildegger

7. C-AF Production Network
New DIMS Hardware
MSG Proc. System(s)
ERS-2 GOME L2/L3 Proc. System(s)
SRTM X-SAR Proc. Systems
Terra/Aqua MODIS Proc. Systems
AIR OS Proc. System(s)
...
TerraSAR-X TVSP Proc. System
Processing Systems
Product Library
Ordering Control
Production Control
Name/Web/ SW Service
Sun Cluster
DIMS
Ordering
Control Server
Production
Control Server
DIMS Operations
Server
Product Library / Inventory Server
Archive Server
Secondary Copy Robot Library (remote)
FC Switch
FC Sw.
FC Sw.
FC Sw.
...
8* LTO-3
SAN Storage System 25 TByte
FC Switch
LX fiber links
Online/Offline Product Gen. & Delivery
Tape SAN
Primary Copy Robot Library
Disk SAN
...
User Inform. Services
Post Processing
13* 9940B
High Availability
High Availability Server
UIS Server
Post Processing Server
CD/ DVD Writing System
Online/ Offline Product Gen. Server
2* LTO-2
AMU
C-AF Production Network
CAF Firewall
to DLR Backbone Switch
DFD, W. Wildegger

8. Hierarchical Storage Management
a r c h i v e
1st Copy
migrate
write
stage
Quantum AML-2
2nd Copy (remote)
read
Disk Cache
Online
Nearline
Quantum i2000
2200 TByte archiving capacity, 10 TByte disk cache
DFD, W. Wildegger

9. New versus Old DIMS Hardware Archive Tape Drives and Media
Type
Native Capacity
Total Capacity of Robot Library
Read / Write Speed
Connec-tion
old primary copy
Sony AIT-2
50 GByte
ca slots 300 TByte
5 MByte/s
SCSI
new primary copy
Sun / STK 9940B
200 GByte
ca. 10,000 slots 2 PByte
30 MByte/s
SAN
old secondary copy
DLT7000
35 GByte
ca slots 35 TByte + off robot storage
3 MByte/s
new secondary copy
IBM LTO-3
400 GByte
ca slots 400 TByte
up to 80 MByte/s
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