Satellite Scheduling Problems: A survey of applications in Earth and outer space observation
这篇综述全面梳理了近30年卫星调度问题的研究，涵盖地球和太空观测中的成像与通信任务，按问题变体分类并总结求解方法，适合相关领域研究者快速了解进展。
With the growing interest in leveraging space technologies to provide both knowledge and services, the need for efficient space mission management also increases. Among all the related problems, the scheduling of tasks performed by observation satellites is not only crucial for the astrophysical community, but it also poses challenging optimization problems, which have been studied for nearly 30 years. The aim of this survey is to provide a comprehensive overview of Satellite Scheduling Problems (SSPs), with a particular focus on applications. First, we propose a novel literature classification of SSPs based on the main variants that have been defined over the years. We address both imaging and communication tasks in the context of Earth-centered missions and, for the first time, of outer space missions. Then, for each class of problems we provide a review of the main contributions available in the literature, offering insights about solution methodologies. Finally, we outline some promising future research directions. • The optimal scheduling of satellite tasks is surveyed. • Imaging, communication and integrated scheduling problems are considered. • A comprehensive literature classification of the problem variants is provided. • Both Earth and Outer Space applications are discussed. • Solution methodologies for each class of problems are presented.