GLOBAL NEAR-EARTH SPACE COVERAGE BY ZONES OF THE USE OF ITS OBSERVATION DEVICES: CONCEPT AND ALGORITHMS

Abstract

This work concerns the development of the task of ensuring full coverage of a given area of heights above the Earth's surface by instantaneous zones of possible application of orbital-based surveillance devices located in circular orbital groups of different heights. The proposed concept of ensuring continuous coverage by zones of possible application of surveillance devices is based on the selection of areas of space, the boundaries of which are moved away from the surveillance devices, and then filling the space with these areas. The work is devoted to the space theme, but by generalizing the statement of the problem, varying a number of conditions of this statement and changing the "scale" of the input data, it is possible to arrive at a variety of technical problems where the proposed concept and algorithms used in its implementation will be appropriate and acceptable (in part or in full).