Satellite Ground Station & Digital Twin

01Overview

GroundStationRoute is a Unity-based ground station. Drone and rover missions are planned on a Mapbox map, telemetry is monitored in real time, and the state of the field is kept in sync with a digital twin.

At its centre sits a mission engine: it tracks mission phases (scan, joint operation, dynamic replan, complete), processes obstacle/target/voxel deltas and replans the route when needed. Data arrives over UDP, and every message is validated and answered with an ACK/NACK.

02Key Features

• Map and routing — Mapbox satellite/street/3D modes with waypoint-based route building
• Survey missions — polygon selection with overlap and transect parameters
• Telemetry panels — drone speed/altitude control, JSON message handling for UAV and rover
• Digital twin — 2D and 3D views with mesh state and trend tracking
• Adaptive flow — automatic switching between Hybrid / TwinOnly / EmergencyTwinOnly modes
• Record and replay — capture an operation and replay it for post-mission analysis

03Engineering Notes

• The digital twin layer is split into discrete components: JSON bridge, UDP ingress, mission engine, adaptive flow controller, recorder/replay and presenter each live in their own class.
• The network layer is built to tolerate lost messages — a failed validation returns a NACK so the sender can retry.