The architecture of data collection planning system for environment observing satellite network

With the development of the earth observing satellites science and technologies, environment observing satellites can be considered as a network which can satisfy various observing requests simultaneously. The data collection planning system for the satellites network investigates how to utilize the satellites network cooperatively and optimally, which provides decision support tools to satisfy the various and multilevel observing requests. The data collection planning system, as a bridge linking users and satellite managers, is designed to try to make use of the whole satellites network sufficiently. Currently, most application systems for observing satellites deal with the simple task which only involves a single satellite or a single series satellite. The compound observing task which involves various kinds of satellites is not considered, which results that the limited observing satellites can not be employed optimally.