Cloud mask data acquisition and distribution using geosynchronous communications or broadcast satellites
US10230454B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 25, 2016 |
| Grant date | Mar 12, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 15, 2036 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04B7/18519
- WIPO fieldTelecommunications
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Cloud mask image data is obtained by a secondary imaging payload disposed on a communications or broadcast satellite operating in geosynchronous orbit. The obtained cloud mask image data is provisioned for use, in near real time, by one or more low earth orbit imaging satellite systems. Provisioning the obtained cloud mask image data may include collecting the data on the ground and making it available to one or more operators of the one or more LEO imaging satellite systems and/or transmitting the data from the communications or broadcast satellite to at least one spacecraft in the one or more LEO imaging satellite systems.
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