EARTH-CENTRIC spacecraft have been designed for decades as monolithic systems, which are highly integrated systems conceived to fulfill a set of goals satisfying certain user needs …
The space segment has been evolved from monolithic to distributed satellite systems. One of these distributed systems is called the federated satellite system (FSS) which aims at …
H Matevosyan, I Lluch, A Poghosyan… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article reviews and analyzes the needs of Earth observation (EO) services' users, stakeholders, and beneficiaries. It identifies the key elements of the value chain of the …
The operational network of individual observation nodes project evaluated the benefits of applying distributed satellite system (DSS) architectures to Earth observation. One of its …
Internet of Things (IoT) involves sensors for monitoring and wireless networks for efficient communication. However, resource-constrained IoT devices and limitations in existing …
Presently, the Earth Observation community is demanding applications that provide low latency and high downlink capabilities. An increase in downlink contacts becomes essential …
JA Ruiz-de-Azua, L Fernandez… - IGARSS 2019-2019 …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
During these years, novel Distributed Satellite Systems (DSS) have addressed the new Earth Observation (EO) requirements (eg near-real time access to data, or multi-point …
Earth Observation applications are demanding higher spatial resolution and shorter revisit times than existing systems, which can be met by ad-hoc constellations of Federated …
Novel space mission concepts such as Federated Satellite Systems promise to enhance sustainability, robustness, and reliability of current missions by means of in-orbit sharing of …