Low earth orbit design for remote sensing applications
This paper investigates the orbit design procedures of a remote sensing satellite mission. The mission objective is to gather images over an area of interest for a variety of applications such as land monitoring, digital mapping, minerals exploration, and deforestation. The design procedures are mai...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English English |
| Published: |
2013
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/38716/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/38716/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/38716/1/Low_Earth_Orbit_Design_for_Remote_Sensing_Appilications-Paper_ID_%2830146%29.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/38716/4/programbookicmaae13.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper investigates the orbit design procedures of a remote sensing satellite mission. The mission objective is to gather images over an area of interest for a variety of applications such as land monitoring, digital mapping, minerals exploration, and deforestation. The design procedures are mainly driven by the payload performance, the satellite life time and the coverage
requirements. For numerical analysis, the payload is considered to be a pushbroom imagining system that produces high resolution with 2.5 m and 5 m ground sample distance in one panchromatic and four multi-spectral bands respectively and it is assumed to image the Earth surface in latitude range from 22 to
32 N. Matlab and STK software are employed to define the
initial orbit design that can meet the mission requirements. |
|---|