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High-precision radial velocity planet searches have surveyed over ~2000 nearby stars and detected over ~200 planets. While these same stars likely harbor many additional planets, they will become increasingly challenging to detect, as they…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Eric B. Ford

The advancement of remote sensing, including satellite systems, facilitates the continuous acquisition of remote sensing imagery globally, introducing novel challenges for achieving open-world tasks. Deployed models need to continuously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Xiang Xiang , Zhuo Xu , Yao Deng , Qinhao Zhou , Yifan Liang , Ke Chen , Qingfang Zheng , Yaowei Wang , Xilin Chen , Wen Gao

The rapid deployment of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations has enabled the emergence of in-orbit edge computing and data centers-interconnected satellites equipped with onboard computing capabilities and high-speed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Zian Wang , Peng Hu , Grant Gunn

Designing satellite constellation systems involves complex multidisciplinary optimization in which coverage serves as a primary driver of overall system cost and performance. Among the various design considerations, constellation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-27 David O. Williams Rogers , Dongshik Won , Dongwook Koh , Kyungwoo Hong , Hang Woon Lee

In beyond 5G and 6G network scenarios, the use of satellites has been actively discussed for extending target monitoring areas, even for extreme circumstances, where the monitoring functionalities can be realized due to the usage of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Joongheon Kim , Yunseok Kwak , Soyi Jung , Jae-Hyun Kim

Earth-observation satellites are emerging as distributed edge platforms for time-critical tasks, yet orbital scheduling remains challenged by intermittent energy harvesting and temporal coupling where eager execution risks future battery…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Ansel Kaplan Erol , Divya Mahajan

The rich history of observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs) does not yet include a well-established framework for using climate models. The need for a climate OSSE is triggered by the need to quantify the value of a particular…

The high number of objects in the LEO is a risk that collisions between sub-orbital or escape velocity objects with an orbiting object of satellites occur when two satellites collide while orbiting the earth. One of the approaches to avoid…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-25 Manuel Ntumba , Saurabh Gore , Pulkit Jain , Jean-Baptiste Awanyo

Targeted spectroscopic exoplanet surveys face the challenge of maximizing their planet detection rates by means of careful planning. The number of possible observation combinations for a large exoplanet survey, i.e., the sequence of…

In the evolving landscape of satellite communications, the deployment of Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations promises to revolutionize global Internet access by providing low-latency, high-bandwidth connectivity to underserved…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Mohamed M. Kassem , Nishanth Sastry

Agile attitude maneuvering maximizes the utility of remote sensing satellite constellations. By taking into account a satellite's physical properties and its actuator specifications, we may leverage the full performance potential of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-17 Emmanuel Sin , Sreeja Nag , Vinay Ravindra , Alan Li , Murat Arcak

Effective ground station selection is critical for low Earth orbiting (LEO) satellite constellations to minimize operational costs, maximize data downlink volume, and reduce communication gaps between access windows. Traditional ground…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Grace Ra Kim , Duncan Eddy , Vedant Srinivas , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Massive amounts of unlabelled data are captured by Earth Observation (EO) satellites, with the Sentinel-2 constellation generating 1.6 TB of data daily. This makes Remote Sensing a data-rich domain well suited to Machine Learning (ML)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Casper Fibaek , Luke Camilleri , Andreas Luyts , Nikolaos Dionelis , Bertrand Le Saux

Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellations are quickly being recognized as an upcoming extension of the Edge-Cloud Continuum into a 3D Continuum. Low-latency connectivity around the Earth and increasing computational power with every…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Thomas Pusztai , Jan Hisberger , Cynthia Marcelino , Stefan Nastic

The Earth Observation planning community has access to tools that can propagate orbits and compute coverage of Earth observing imagers with customizable shapes and orientation, model the expected Earth Reflectance at various bands, epochs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-21 Sreeja Nag , Philip Dabney , Vinay Ravindra , Cody Anderson

When using constellation synergy to image large areas for reconnaissance, it is required to achieve the coverage capability requirements with minimal consumption of observation resources to obtain the most optimal constellation observation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jiahao Zhou , Boheng Li , Qingxiang Meng

Automatic scheduling techniques are becoming a crucial tool for the efficient planning of large astronomical surveys. A specific scheduling method is being designed and developed for the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-20 J. C. Morales , N. Nakhjiri , J. Colomé , I. Ribas , E. García , D. Moreno , F. Vilardell

Observation scheduling problem for agile earth observation satellites (OSPFAS) plays a critical role in management of agile earth observation satellites (AEOSs). Active imaging enriches the extension of OSPFAS, we call the novel problem as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Zhongxiang Chang , Zhongbao Zhou

Advances in Earth observation (EO) foundation models have unlocked the potential of big satellite data to learn generic representations from space, benefiting a wide range of downstream applications crucial to our planet. However, most…

While foundation models have shown promise across a variety of fields, astronomy still lacks a unified framework for joint modeling across its highly diverse data modalities. In this paper, we present AION-1, a family of large-scale…