PLANNING APPLICATIONS IN IMAGE-ANALYSIS

We describe two interim results from an ongoing effort to automate the acquisition, analysis, archiving, and distribution of satellite Earth science data. Both results are applications of artificial intelligenc e planning research to the automatic generation of processing steps fo r image analysis tasks. First, we have constructed a linear conditiona l planner (PLINTH), and used it to generate conditional plans for imag e-processing. Second, we have extended an existing hierarchical planni ng system to make use of durations, resources, and deadlines, thus sup porting the automatic generation of processing steps in time- and reso urce-constrained environments.