Open AccessThe RADARSAT ‐MAMM Automated Mission Planner
Author(s) -
Smith Benjamin D.,
Engelhardt Barbara E.,
Mutz Darren H.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
ai magazine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Book series
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 2371-9621
pISSN - 0738-4602
ISBN - 1-57735-134-7
DOI - 10.1609/aimag.v23i2.1638
Subject(s) - planner , plan (archaeology) , resource (disambiguation) , engineering , operations research , computer science , systems engineering , geography , artificial intelligence , archaeology , computer network
The Modified Antarctic Mapping Mission (MAMM) was conducted from September to November 2000 onboard RADARSAT. The mission plan consisted of more than 2400 synthetic aperture radar data acquisitions of Antarctica that achieved the scientific objectives and obeyed RADARSAT 's resource and operational constraints. Mission planning is a time‐ and knowledge‐intensive effort. It required over a workyear to manually develop a comparable plan for AMM‐1, the precursor mission to MAMM. This article describes the design and use of the automated mission planning system for MAMM, which dramatically reduced mission‐planning costs to just a few workweeks and enabled rapid generation of what‐if scenarios for evaluating alternative mission designs.