The Committee on Space Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences has recently organized a Space Observations seminar. Two GMV representatives, Robert Kędzierawski and Wojciech Oryszczak, presented BIBLOS project, which stands for Building BLOcks for Earth Observations mission performance Simulators. In a nutshell it is a library of software units called “Building Blocks”, or simply “Blocks”, that can be used to build an end-to-end simulator (E2ES).

End-to-end mission performance simulators (E2ES) for Earth Observation missions are one of the prominent tools for system design and scientific validation in early mission phases. An E2ES is used by the scientists and the engineering teams to simulate the acquisition and generation of satellite products. The BIBLOS project, led by GMV, is designed to speed up development of E2ES while reducing its costs and avoiding re-engineering at the same time.

In addition to the theoretical part, the speakers also presented practical models for the use of designed libraries to assemble the simulation chain. Featured, among others, were examples of images obtained just by changing the configuration of the default settings of the simulation blocks without interfering with the source code.