Cloud-based space situational awareness: initial design and evaluation

Bingwei Liu; Yu Chen; Dan Shen; Genshe Chen; Khanh Pham; Erik Blasch

doi:10.1117/12.2015525

21 May 2013 Cloud-based space situational awareness: initial design and evaluation

Bingwei Liu, Yu Chen, Dan Shen, Genshe Chen, Khanh Pham, Erik Blasch

Proceedings Volume 8739, Sensors and Systems for Space Applications VI; 87390M (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2015525
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2013, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Abstract

The need for a global collaborating space situational awareness (SSA) network, including radars, optical and other sensors for communication and surveillance, has become a top priority for most countries who own or operate man-made space-crafts. Such a SSA system requires vast storage, powerful computing capacity and the ability to serve hundreds of thousands of users to access the same database. These requirements make traditional distributed networking system insufficient. Cloud computing, which features scalable and elastic storage and computing services, has been recognized as an ideal candidate that can meet the challenges of SSA systems' requirements. In this paper, we propose a Cloud-based information fusion system for SSA and examine a prototype that serves space tracking algorithms. We discuss the benefits of using Cloud Computing as an alternative for data processing and storage and explore details of Cloud implementation for a representative SSA system environment.

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Bingwei Liu, Yu Chen, Dan Shen, Genshe Chen, Khanh Pham, and Erik Blasch "Cloud-based space situational awareness: initial design and evaluation", Proc. SPIE 8739, Sensors and Systems for Space Applications VI, 87390M (21 May 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2015525

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