METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SCHEDULING IMAGE ACQUISITION EVENTS BASED ON DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING

摘要

A method and system for scheduling events into a set of opportunities is presented. The method includes 1) dividing a path of an image acquisition device (34) so that there is at least a first portion and a second portion at any given moment, wherein each of the first portion and the second portion includes at least one state and the first portion includes a null state in which no image is taken; 2) combining each state in the first portion with at least one state in the second portion one by one to generate a series of updated sequences; and 3) selecting at least one of the updated sequences based on a merit value associated with each of the updated sequences. The invention uses only two groups out of all the relevant opportunities for most calculations, and is especially applicable to situations like satellite pass scheduling.