Methods and systems for scheduling of sensing platform nodes

A system for observing a predetermined monitoring area, the system comprising:

• at least one sensing platform node for observing a predetermined number of sub-areas of the monitoring area, the system being configured to observe the sub-areas of the monitoring area using the sensing platform node so as to collect measuring data for the sub-areas,
• at least one prediction model configured to analyze predictability of measuring data for the sub-areas based on the collected measuring data, to calculate future measuring data for the sub-areas and to calculate uncertainty of the future measuring data over time, and
• at least one planner configured to schedule the sensing platform node for observation of the sub-areas, wherein the scheduling of the sensing platform node is dependent on the calculated uncertainty of the future measuring data predicted for the sub-areas;
• wherein the at least one planner is configured to perform the scheduling on the basis of a cost function J(t) according to:
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• wherein uncertaintyi(t) is the uncertainty of the calculated future measuring data for a respective one of the observed sub-areas i at time t, wherein parameter Pi is 0 in a case that a respective one of the sensing platform nodes observes the sub-area i at time t, and wherein parameter Pi is 1 in a case that the respective one of the sensing platform nodes does not observe the sub-area i at time t.