spatial autonomy

12:40 Jun 14, 2008
English to Japanese translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Aerospace / Aviation / Space / satellite imagery
English term or phrase: spatial autonomy
衛星画像作成アプリケーションの資料に出てきた言葉です。
Accessing the « spatial autonomy » by developing bottom-of-the-antenna application

よろしくお願いします。
MKStar
United States
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1空間的自律性
Aogara
1空間的な自律性
Jim DeLaHunt


  

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空間的自律性


Explanation:
Just a guess, but "autonomy" is often translated as 自律性 in scientific fields.

Aogara
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空間的な自律性


Explanation:
The term "spatial autonomy" strikes me as unusual. Maybe it's a special term in spacecraft design. The fact that the source puts it in quotes means that maybe the author didn't quite think the term applied, but didn't have a better way to express what they meant.

Where I see it used in contexts like social sciences, it refers to the ability of a person to decide where to position themselves spatially or geographically. I've also seen it applied to robots on factory floors and birds in an ecosystem.

Perhaps what it means here is "accessing locations on the spacecraft where components can move without being obstructed by other spacecraft structures, such as on the bottom of the antenna". A longer excerpt from the source might make this clearer.

If you don't want to clean up the source's unclear language, then I think translating the unclear term directly might be a reasonable choice. 「空間的な自律性」sounds plausible to me.

Jim DeLaHunt
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