ISPRS-Archives The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ISPRS-Archives Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci. 2194-9034 ISPRS Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/isprsarchives-XXXIX-B1-339-2012 AN OPTIMAL IMAGING-SCHEDULING ALGORITHM FOR THE MULTI-STRIP IMAGING-MODE OF THE HIGH-RESOLUTION AGILE SATELLITES BASED ON CERTAIN STEP-SIZE SEARCH Yang B. 1 Wang M. 1 Jin S. 1 Pan J. 1 State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, China 24 07 2012 XXXIX-B1 339 343 Copyright: © 2012 B. Yang et al. 2012 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XXXIX-B1/339/2012/isprs-archives-XXXIX-B1-339-2012.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XXXIX-B1/339/2012/isprs-archives-XXXIX-B1-339-2012.pdf

The high flexibility of the agile satellite can significantly improve its ability to obtain data. Compared with ordinary satellite platforms, the imaging-scheduling is more important, and is the basis to ensure the efficiency and quality of data for the agile satellite. To be aimed at the multi-strip imaging-mode of the agile satellite, from the perspective of the image-quality, a imagingscheduling algorithm based on certain step-size search in the multi-strip imaging-mode of the agile satellite is proposed , and the influence of the selection of the imaging time-window on the multi-strip image quality is analyzed quantitatively through the experimental data. The results show that the optimal image data can be obtained through the image-scheduling algorithm.