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With the rapid development of connecting massive devices to the Internet, especially for remote areas without cellular network infrastructures, space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGINs) emerge and offload computation-intensive tasks. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yali Chen , Bo Ai , Yong Niu , Hongliang Zhang , Zhu Han

With the rapid expansion of low Earth orbit (LEO) constellations, thousands of satellites are now in operation, many equipped with onboard GNSS receivers capable of continuous orbit determination and time synchronization. This development…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-14 Xing Liu , Xue Xian Zheng , José A. López-Salcedo , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Gonzalo Seco-Granados

Earth observation satellite imaging scheduling is a challenging NP-hard combinatorial optimisation problem central to space mission operations. While next-generation agile Earth observation satellites (EOS) increase operational flexibility,…

Space-ground integrated networks hold great promise for providing global connectivity, particularly in remote areas where large amounts of valuable data are generated by Internet of Things (IoT) devices, but lacking terrestrial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Jingyang Zhu , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou , Chunxiao Jiang , Linling Kuang

Earth observation (EO) data volumes are rapidly increasing. While cloud computing are now used for processing large EO datasets, the energy efficiency aspects of such a processing have received much less attention. This issue is notable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Adhitya Bhawiyuga , Serkan Girgin , Rolf A. de By , Raul Zurita-Milla

Earth observation (EO) missions traditionally rely on transmitting raw or minimally processed imagery from satellites to ground stations for computationally intensive analysis. This paradigm is infeasible for CubeSat systems due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Luigi Capogrosso , Michele Magno

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) enables rich services in close proximity to the end users to provide high quality of experience (QoE) and contributes to energy conservation compared with local computing, but results in increased communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Mingxiong Zhao , Jun-Jie Yu , Wen-Tao Li , Di Liu , Shaowen Yao , Wei Feng , Changyang She , Tony Q. S. Quek

In this paper, we investigate the issue of satellite-terrestrial computing in the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks, where multiple terrestrial base stations (BSs) and low earth orbit (LEO) satellites collaboratively provide edge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Qi Wang , Xiaoming Chen , Qiao Qi

Nanosatellite constellations equipped with sensors capturing large geographic regions provide unprecedented opportunities for Earth observation. As constellation sizes increase, network contention poses a downlink bottleneck. Orbital Edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Alireza Furutanpey , Qiyang Zhang , Philipp Raith , Tobias Pfandzelter , Shangguang Wang , Schahram Dustdar

Low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication networks have been considered as promising solutions to providing high data rate and seamless coverage, where satellite beam management plays a key role. However, due to the limitation of beam…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jianfeng Zhu , Yaohua Sun , Mugen Peng

Due to the Internet of Everything (IoE), data generated in our life become larger. As a result, we need more effort to analyze the data and extract valuable information. In the cloud computing environment, all data analysis is done in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Chuan-Chi Lai , Yan-Lin Chen , Bo-Xin Liu , Chuan-Ming Liu

This paper explores the role of energy-awareness strategies into the deployment of applications across heterogeneous Edge-Cloud infrastructures. It proposes methods to inject into existing scheduling approaches energy metrics at a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Dalal Ali , Rute C. Sofia

This paper investigates the maximum achievable downlink spectral efficiency of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations. Spectral efficiency is defined here as the total network sum rate per unit bandwidth per unit area of Earth's…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Cuneyd Ozturk , Dongning Guo , Randall A. Berry , Michael L. Honig

In recent years, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites have witnessed rapid development, with inference based on Deep Neural Network (DNN) models emerging as the prevailing technology for remote sensing satellite image recognition. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Yijie Chen , Qiyang Zhang , Yiran Zhang , Xiao Ma , Ao Zhou

The proliferation of low-earth-orbit (LEO) satellite networks leads to the generation of vast volumes of remote sensing data which is traditionally transferred to the ground server for centralized processing, raising privacy and bandwidth…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-03 Yuanming Shi , Li Zeng , Jingyang Zhu , Yong Zhou , Chunxiao Jiang , Khaled B. Letaief

As emerging massive constellations are intended to provide seamless connectivity for remote areas using hundreds of small low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, new methodologies have great importance to study the performance of these networks.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Niloofar Okati , Taneli Riihonen

Earth observation (EO) satellite missions have been providing detailed images about the state of the Earth and its land cover for over 50 years. Long term missions, such as NASA's Landsat, Terra, and Aqua satellites, and more recently, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-27 Lynn Miller , Charlotte Pelletier , Geoffrey I. Webb

Satellite-based remote sensing has revolutionised the way we address global challenges. Huge quantities of Earth Observation (EO) data are generated by satellite sensors daily, but processing these large datasets for use in ML pipelines is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Matthew J Allen , Francisco Dorr , Joseph Alejandro Gallego Mejia , Laura Martínez-Ferrer , Anna Jungbluth , Freddie Kalaitzis , Raúl Ramos-Pollán

Satellite Earth-observation (EO) time series in the optical and microwave ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum are often irregular due to orbital patterns and cloud obstruction. Compositing addresses these issues but loses information…

We have used an existing, robotic, multi-lens, all-sky camera system, coupled to a dedicated data reduction pipeline, to automatically determine orbital parameters of satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Each of the fixed cameras has a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-20 T. P. G. Wijnen , R. Stuik , M. Rodenhuis , M. Langbroek , P. Wijnja