Space-based remote sensing systems can be utilized to solve a broad range of problems. As you have learned from this module’s readings, different sensors and constellations have different characteristics. In this discussion, you must complete the following assessments for two of the three scenarios listed below:
- An organic farming association is struggling to enforce standards against counterfeit organic farmers in the region, who are selling food treated with non-organic pesticides as organic produce.
- A government agency concerned with monitoring troop and weapons movements across the entire Sahara desert.
- A real estate development company is planning to build a large-scale development in a suburban region. They must analyze the impact of this development on traffic patterns in the region.
In this discussion, you should, at a minimum, include the following:
- What is the customers’ rank ordering of performance parameters? Be sure to consider the following performance parameters (See EUSPA p. 194 from the readings in Module 3) https://www.euspa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/uploads/euspa_market_report_2022.pdf :
- Spatial
- Temporal
- Radiometric
- Geolocation Accuracy
- Cost
- What type of EO system (including both sensors and constellation) is best suited to meet these parameters?
- Is there a commercial company that you believe comes closest to meeting these parameters? Discuss your selection.