Feasible area determination tool for earth observation satellite

In order to achieve the next level services of earth observation satellite data, the web-based tool for satellite mission planning is developed. The objectives are joint-usage spare resources of earth observation satellite amongst ASEAN, customer-self mission planning and multi-objective optimization for mission plan. The tools is developed in three segments; web-based application for world-wide service, space mechanics and Earth model for the computation of feasible accessibility and multi-objective optimization for effective mission planning. The project started with the web-based development in order to make the tool available as soon as possible. The projection of satellite resulting from the computation in the later phase is now temporarily compensated by the database of satellite position created by STK (Satellite Tool Kit). At the moment, the tool is functional without neither orbit propagator nor earth model. For further enhancement, space mechanics and earth models as well as algorithm for mission plan optimization will be taken into account very soon in order to relieve the interaction between human and tool, make it self-sufficient for operation and increase mission planning efficiency.