On-Board Processing for Satellite Remote Sensing Images

2On-Board Processing for Remotely Sensed Images

DOI: 10.1201/9781003319634-2

2.1INTRODUCTION

It is generally expected that spaceborne-based mission operation activities for earth observing would evolve from ground-based toward on-board ones (Teston et al. 1997; Altinok et al. 2016). Many basic and complex operations are expected to gradually migrate onto the on-board computer (Zhou et al. 2004). This is because the traditional on-ground operations by humans are essentially limited for rapidly response to time-critical events, such as life rescue in ocean. To this end, the new generation of satellites, associated with the ground-based operations are expected to be performed together in an overall system-level architecture rather than in isolation ...