DEALING WITH UNCERTAINTY WHEN MANAGING AN EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITE
Eric Bensana, G. Verfaillie, Claire Michelon-Edery, Nicolas Bataille · International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 1999
The possible presence of clouds is the main origin of uncertainty when managing earth optical observation satellites. Forgetting it can lead to poor results in terms of really achieved photographs. In this paper, we show how a mathematical approach, drawn from the Markov Decision Process framework, allows us to define a rational way of taking in account this uncertainty in the daily optimization process.