Integrated Wireless Sensor Systems via Near-Space and Satellite Platforms: A Review

Abstract

Due to extreme conditions, the near-space region is vastly underused and can be utilized for various scientific uses. The unconstrained orbital mechanism and low fuel consumption advantages for using synthetic aperture radar over the satellites and airplanes navigation systems make these conditions superior for a wide range of services, monitoring, earth observation, and sensing applications. The augmented integration within the existing global navigation system can help in measuring the direction-of-arrival, as well as collecting and distributing accurate location information. For wireless sensing applications, it can enable a new range of opportunities, a wide range of smart sensor applications as experimental platforms for deployment of new technologies. Here, we also examine the implementation of near-space platform (NSP) coverage and associated technologies. Then, a brief integration of communication and navigation services using NSP from a top-level system description of how to relay, associated complementary systems, including radar sensor systems, satellite systems, and terrestrial networks can be used.