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Evaluating Earth-Observing Satellite Sampling Effectiveness Using Kullback-Leibler Divergence
Negin Esmaeili, Paul T. Grogan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10859 https://

Evaluating Earth-Observing Satellite Sampling Effectiveness Using Kullback-Leibler Divergence
This work presents an objective, repeatable, automatic, and fast methodology for assessing the representativeness of geophysical variables sampled by Earth-observing satellites. The primary goal is to identify and mitigate potential sampling biases attributed to orbit selection during pre-Phase A mission studies. This methodology supports current incubation activities for a future Planetary Boundary Layer observing system by incorporating a sampling effectiveness measure into a broader architec…