National Remote Sensing Centre Ltd., Farnborough, UK
Gyrosystem
was commissioned to develop a collection of scientific algorithms,
intended to process ERS-1 Satellite sea-surface height data
in order to produce a geographical sea-surface contour map
or 'GEOID'.
The
entire system was programmed in Sun 'C' to run on a target
Sun Microsystems SPARC Workstation running UNIX.