IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing publication information
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing · 2010
On June 15th 2007 TerraSAR-X was successfully launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.On board TerraSAR-X, a high resolution X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instrument is being operated as the primary payload.The user community requesting SAR products is composed of commercial and scientific partners as documented in a Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) agreement.The operations of the TerraSAR-X bus as well as payload operations are performed by the Mission Operations Segment (MOS).The Mission Planning System (MPS), a part of the Mission Operations Segment, has been designed to handle complex payload and standard bus operations in an automated manner.The purpose of this paper is to describe the concepts and the TerraSAR-X realization of the Mission Planning System.