GPS radio occultation constellation design with the optimal performance in Asia Pacific region

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• 作者：Milad Asgarimehr ; Masoud Mashhadi Hossainali
• 关键词：Constellation design ; Radio occultation mission ; Genetic algorithms ; Constellation patterns ; Voronoi diagram ; FORMOSAT ; 3/COSMIC
• 刊名：Journal of Geodesy
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：June 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：89
• 期：6
• 页码：519-536
• 全文大小：5,720 KB
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• 作者单位：Milad Asgarimehr (1)
  Masoud Mashhadi Hossainali (1)
  
  1. Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, K. N.Toosi University of Technology, No. 1346, Vali_Asr Ave., Mirdamad Cr., Tehran, Iran
  
• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：Earth sciences
  Geophysics and Geodesy
  Mathematical Applications in Geosciences
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1432-1394

文摘

The growing desire for better spatial and also temporal distribution of radio occultation data is a motivation for extensive researches considering either number of GNSS/receiver satellites or better optimization tools resulting in better distributions. This paper addresses the problem of designing a global positioning system-only radio occultation mission with the optimal performance in Asia Pacific region. Constellation Patterns are discussed and 2D-lattice and 3D-lattice flower constellations are adopted to develop a system with circular and elliptical orbits, respectively. A perturbed orbit propagation model leading to significantly more accurate pre-analysis is used. Emphasizing on the spatial and also temporal distribution of radio occultation events for the first time, distribution norm is provided as a volumetric distribution measure using Voronoi diagram concept in a 3D space consisting temporal and spatial intervals. Optimizations are performed using genetic algorithm to determine optimal constellation design parameters by the suitable fitness function and constraints devised. The resulted constellation has been evaluated by a regional comparison to the globally distributed FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC in terms of the distribution norm, number of radio occultation events and also coverage as an additional point-to-point distribution measure. Although it is demonstrated that the optimal 3D-lattice enjoys better performance than FORMOSAT-3, the design approach results in a 2D-lattice flower constellation which is superior to other constellations in regional emphasis of radio occultation events. Its global performance is discussed and it is demonstrated that using multi-GNSS receiver to increase satellites may not guarantee a good distribution of radio occultation data in some aspects.