Policy-based automated science coverage scheduling for earth science mission analysis and operations (NISAR, ECOSTRESS, OCO-3, and EMIT). Chien, S., Yelamanchili, A., & Doubleday, J. In Earth Science Technology Forum (ESTF 2019), Moffett Field, California, USA, June, 2019.
Policy-based automated science coverage scheduling for earth science mission analysis and operations (NISAR, ECOSTRESS, OCO-3, and EMIT) [pdf]Paper  abstract   bibtex   31 downloads  
Automated policy based coverage scheduling is in operational usage in both mission analysis and mission operations for a range of Earth Science missions. We present an overview of the coverage analysis and search-based automated scheduling techniques. Then we describe some of the challenges in modeling complex mission constraints and unique aspects of some of the target missions, drawing examples from work for the NISAR, ECOSTRESS, OCO-3, and EMIT missions. Finally, we describe some promising real for future work including increasing parallelism and leveraging recent advances in hardware for geometric computation.

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