Seeing the World through an Antenna's Eye: Reception Quality Visualization Using Incomplete Technical Signal Information
This work addresses a domain-specific problem for ground station operations by providing a novel visualization method for signal quality assessment.
The paper tackled the problem of visualizing satellite data reception quality by applying an inpainting technique to incomplete technical signal information, demonstrating its advantages over raw data for assessment purposes.
We come up with a novel application for image analysis methods in the context of direction dependent signal characteristics. For this purpose, we describe an inpainting approach adding benefit to technical signal information which are typically only used for monitoring and control purposes in ground station operations. Recalling the theoretical properties of the employed inpainting technique and appropriate modeling allow us to demonstrate the usefulness of our approach for satellite data reception quality assessment. In our application, we show the advantages of inpainting products over raw data as well as the rich potential of the visualization of technical signal information.