Research on Simulation Method of Mineral Monitoring With Remote Sensing Satellites

High resolution remote sensing satellite can apply into mineral monitoring, but quantity of Chinese civil remote sensing satellites on orbit is limited. For analysing the ability and exploring the deficiency of satellites system, and improving the satellite system efficiency in mineral monitoring task, a simulation method of mineral monitoring with remote sensing satellites is proposed. Firstly the task demand analysis of mineral monitoring is developed, which is including the key observe areas and the payload parameters such as spectrum, resolution, and breadth and so on. Secondly, the satellites which can satisfy the task demand are selected, and base on the selected satellites system to build the simulation models. Thirdly, the task planning and scheduling methods is used to achieve the optimize simulation results. Finally the demand satisfaction of satellite system is assessed and the system efficiency is analysed. In this chapter, the simulation results is the parameters such as revisit time, covering time and continuous observation time of key observation areas. These parameters can be transformed to indicators which can reflect the satellite effectiveness. The contribution ratio of a single satellite to the whole satellite system is calculated and the satellite effectiveness is quantified, so the different kinds of satellites in the system can be compared with, meanwhile, the suggestion which can maximize satellites system effectiveness is provided specifically. Through the research on simulation method of mineral monitoring with remote sense satellites, the deficiency of remote sense payload and satellite system is recognized, which can provide the reference and suggestion for building optimization remote sense payload and satellite system in mineral monitoring application.