IS THERE A FUTURE FOR GEO-BASED WEATHER MONITORING? THE COVERAGE-COST ARGUMENT Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • 2018 IEEE Both ESA/Eumetsat and NASA/NOAA have had a GEO and a polar component of space-based operational weather monitoring for decades. However, constellations of a few dozen small satellites in LEO can now provide sub-hour revisit times similar to those achieved from GEO and better spatial resolution than GEO for the same cost as a large GEO satellite. On the other hand, the large instruments typically used for GEO-based monitoring must be broken down into components in order to be allocated to smaller satellites. This paper describes a methodology to systematically study this large and rich architecture space and discuss under what circumstances and for what purposes a GEO component may still be superior to LEO. The focus is on coverage-cost tradeoffs, whereas other important considerations are left for future work.

name of conference

  • IGARSS 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

published proceedings

  • IGARSS 2018 - 2018 IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM

author list (cited authors)

  • Selva, D., & Dutta, P.

citation count

  • 1

complete list of authors

  • Selva, Daniel||Dutta, Prachi

publication date

  • January 2018