Development of the FORMOSAT-8 planning and scheduling system: system process design for tasking requirements

The Taiwan Space Agency (TASA) has actively contributed to international disaster relief and monitoring activities through its imaging missions with FORMOSAT-2 and the current FORMOSAT-5, in collaboration with Sentinel Asia. Our past experiences include fulfilling domestic needs such as national land planning, crop monitoring, coastline detection, water resource analysis, and regular ecological tracking. Through continuous collaboration with both domestic and international organizations, we have progressively developed a comprehensive understanding of satellite imaging system requirements. The development of the FORMOSAT-8 scheduling system builds on these past experiences, utilizing the established tasking database model and integrating it with the frontend interface. The process starts with an external user requirements survey, followed by the planning of user needs and the integration of internal operation team workflows. We have defined the data communication between the Data Management Subsystem (DMS) and the Planning and Scheduling Subsystem (PSS). This report will explain the current scheduling system's processing workflow.