US 12,463,718 B1
Mobile ground station processing of satellite sensor data
Frank Paterra, Oakton, VA (US); and Cody Planteen, Denver, CO (US)
Assigned to Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on Jun. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/338,873.
Int. Cl. H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04B 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04B 7/18586 (2013.01) [H04B 1/0003 (2013.01); H04B 7/18517 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
sending a satellite tasking request via a first communications path to a tasking service of a provider network to task an earth observation satellite with data collection, the satellite tasking request including an identification of a region of interest from which to collect sensor data and an identification of a downlink location of a mobile ground station to which to transmit collected sensor data;
receiving, by the mobile ground station, a satellite transmission including unprocessed downlink data, the satellite transmission received from a tasked earth observation satellite via a second communications path, the second communications path being a satellite downlink from the tasked earth observation satellite to the mobile ground station as the tasked earth observation satellite passes over the downlink location;
selecting a software-defined radio (SDR) definition associated with the tasked earth observation satellite from a plurality of SDR definitions stored by the mobile ground station;
selecting a sensor data processing (SDP) application associated with the tasked earth observation satellite from a plurality of SDP applications stored by the mobile ground station;
executing, in one or more virtualized environments:
(a) an SDR application to extract collected sensor data from the unprocessed downlink data, wherein the collected sensor data represents data collected over the region of interest, and wherein the SDR application is loaded with the selected SDR definition;
(b) the selected SDP application to generate an image from the collected sensor data; and
causing a display of the image on a display device.