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Choosing the Structure of Satellite Systems for Meteorology and Forest Fire Detection on the Basis of a Vector Model of Surveying the Earth

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A vector model of surveying the Earth has been used to show that the satellite systems that are considered should have an “equidistant” structure formed by equal shifts of orbital nodes by longitude and by the phase of satellites. The structure options have been compared using a computer program developed from the vector model of surveying the Earth that calculates all survey interruptions with their frequencies for the subsequent version of the satellite system in a split second. Analyzing all possible options, we have elaborated recommendations for choosing the structure of systems consisting of four meteorological satellites of METEOR-M-type and five or six satellites with wide-range infrared radiometers tested for the first time on the KANOPUS-V-IK satellite. An additional finding is that, in the variants at hand, the frequency of the maximum survey interruption, which is widely used as a criterion for the efficiency of the Earth observation systems, turned out to be less than 0.01. In view of this, we have concluded that the use of this criterion is impractical.

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Saul’skii, V.K. Choosing the Structure of Satellite Systems for Meteorology and Forest Fire Detection on the Basis of a Vector Model of Surveying the Earth. Cosmic Res 58, 295–306 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0010952520040085

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