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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2016
Space Systems/loral, Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jared Kauffman Gill, San Francisco, CA (US);
Saghir Munir, San Ramon, CA (US);
Space Systems/Loral, LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
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.