Fully Adaptive Remote Sensing Observing System Simulation Experiments

Future observing systems simulation experiments (OSSEs) will need to be of increased sophistication to support emerging sensors that exploit parametric adaption, resource management in constrained environments, and the collaboration of distributed sensing nodes. This paper demonstrates the power of using adaptive approaches to remote sensing through a fully adaptive radar imaging example that uses experimental data. In the demonstration, the image resolution varies between 0.47 m and 1.2 m leading to a cost metric savings of 18% and 22% compared to fixed coarse and fine resolution tests. The experimental demonstration is used to inform a discussion of how future OSSEs will need to operate.