Abstract
The agile Earth observation satellite (AEOS) is rapidly becoming the leading platform in Earth observation missions, as it implements attitude maneuvers and remote sensing simultaneously. However, present methods limit not only its remote sensing coverage to a small area during attitude maneuvering but also its operation to only certain orbit shapes. This paper proposes a new method, namely envelope curves hierarchical overlapping (ECHO), for the target area coverage analysis of an AEOS that implements attitude maneuvers during its mission. This method involves two stages. In the preparation stage, the satellite's instantaneous access area (IAA) is defined and analytically determined by solving the spatial equations of an oblate Earth and the sensor's view field. Then, the coverage belt of an AEOS is delineated by the envelope curves of a set of IAAs. In the manipulation stage, the coverage problem of a target area is solved by iteratively using the polygon clipping technique and hierarchically taking the intersection parts between the coverage belt and the target area. Numerical simulations demonstrate the practicability and high accuracy of the proposed method.
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