Automated Planning for the Antarctic Mapping Mission
Benjamin Smith, Barbara E. Engelhardt, Darren Mutz · 2000
The Second RadarSAT Antarctic Mapping Mission (ANfM-2) is scheduled to begin in September of 2000. The Aspen planning system will automate the mission planning process and provide a fast-replanning capability for responding to anomalies during operations. AMM plans consist of several hundred SAR data swaths that must cover a ground region while obeying resource and operational constraints. This paper describes the planning problem, the system architecture, and the planning challenges involved.