MICROSCOPE. mission analysis, requirements and expected performance

Development of a Mission Abstraction Requirements Structure (MARS) and stochastic modelling for sensing service-driven mission performance prediction

Research was sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the U.K. Ministry of Defence and was accomplished under Agreement Number W911NF-06-3-0001. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the author(s) and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, the U.S. Government, the U...

Regression analysis with missing data and unknown colored noise: application to the MICROSCOPE space mission

Performance Analysis Patterns for Requirements Analysis

Many problems might arise when performance requirements are not taken into account from the beginning of software development. Architectural solutions such as performance patterns represent design decisions on the architecture level that might constrain quality requirements significantly. Knowledge which is gained in the solution space, for example from performance patterns, should be reflected...

Mission Performance as Point Performance

T he cruise or loiter performance of an aircraft is intimately tied to its wing loading (W/S) and its thrust to weight ratio (T /W ). Paradoxically, mission performance is often not considered when these fundamental aircraft parameters are determined in conceptual design. In this research, the traditional constraint diagram is extended to include contours of range parameter. This point performa...

Spaceborne Polarimetric SAR Interferometry: Performance Analysis and Mission Concepts

We investigate multichannel imaging radar systems employing coherent combinations of polarimetry and interferometry (PolInSAR). Such systems are well suited for the extraction of bioand geophysical parameters by evaluating the combined scattering from surfaces and volumes. This combination leads to several important differences between the design of Pol-InSAR sensors and conventional single pol...