Abstract

Remote sensing systems are experiencing a transition toward autonomous and distributed architectures with massive scale. UAVs, CubeSats and SmallSats can now be equipped with science-quality instruments and compute accelerators, allowing increased volumes of data to be acquired and processed on-board; in turn, on-board processing enables autonomous coordination among satellites, eg, to repeat Earth science measurements or to request close-range measurements by UAVs. These distributed and autonomous aspects pose new challenges in how Earth science missions are conceived, developed, and deployed: the performance of computing and networking becomes critical to the success of the mission, as nodes of the constellation have limited storage buffers and communication windows. The Virtual Constellation Engine (VCE) is a framework to test multi-satellite applications using cloud resources …

Date

2020

Authors

M Paolieri, M French, V Menon, A Schmidt

Journal

AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts

Volume

2020

Pages

IN019-08