# Satellite Provider — Architecture ## Architecture Vision Satellite Provider is a self-hosted .NET 10 backend service that pre-downloads, caches, and composites Google Maps satellite imagery for offline use. It runs as a single containerized monolith with PostgreSQL, processing requests asynchronously via in-process queues. The dominant pattern is a layered architecture (API → Services → DataAccess → PostgreSQL) with background hosted services for long-running work. **Components & responsibilities** (each owns its own `.csproj` since AZ-309): - **Common** (`SatelliteProvider.Common`) — Shared contracts: DTOs, service interfaces, common exceptions, configuration models, geospatial math - **DataAccess** (`SatelliteProvider.DataAccess`) — PostgreSQL persistence via Dapper + DbUp migrations - **TileDownloader** (`SatelliteProvider.Services.TileDownloader`) — Provider-agnostic tile acquisition via `ISatelliteDownloader` interface (first implementation: Google Maps) with deduplication, concurrency control, and an in-memory tile-byte cache owned by `TileService` - **RegionProcessing** (`SatelliteProvider.Services.RegionProcessing`) — Batch tile downloads for geographic areas, stitching, output generation - **RouteManagement** (`SatelliteProvider.Services.RouteManagement`) — Route interpolation, geofenced region generation, consolidated map output The three Layer-3 service components are compile-time siblings: each only references `SatelliteProvider.Common` and `SatelliteProvider.DataAccess`. Cross-component runtime calls flow exclusively through interfaces in `SatelliteProvider.Common.Interfaces`. **Major data flows**: - *Tile acquisition*: HTTP request → cache check → Google Maps download → disk + DB persistence - *Region processing*: Request queued → background worker calculates tile grid → downloads all tiles → produces CSV/summary/stitched image - *Route expansion*: Waypoints → interpolated points every ~200m → geofence filtering → region requests per point → optional ZIP archive **Architectural principles** (inferred): - Single-instance deployment, no horizontal scaling requirements (`inferred-from: Channel-based queue, no distributed state`) - Append-by-source-and-flight tile storage (AZ-503; refines AZ-484) — multiple producers (Google Maps, UAV upload from N flights, future SatAR, …) can each persist a row per `(tile_zoom, tile_x, tile_y, tile_size_meters)` cell. Reads return the most-recent row across sources, ordered by `captured_at DESC` with deterministic `(updated_at DESC, id DESC)` tie-breaks. The single-row-per-cell-per-source-per-flight invariant is enforced by `idx_tiles_unique_identity` (6-column integer-only, `COALESCE(flight_id, '00000000-...'::uuid)`) introduced in migration 014; this supersedes the AZ-484 float-based `idx_tiles_unique_location_source`. Identity is deterministic across re-ingests: `tiles.id = Uuidv5(TileNamespace, "{z}/{x}/{y}/{source}/{flight_id or zero-uuid}")` and `tiles.location_hash = Uuidv5(TileNamespace, "{z}/{x}/{y}")`. The `tiles.version` column remains vestigial since AZ-357 dropped year-based cache invalidation in favour of cell-level overwrite. (`inferred-from: tiles table + AZ-484/AZ-357/AZ-503 migrations + tile-storage contract v1.0.0`) - Cross-repo deterministic tile identity (AZ-503) — the `TileNamespace` UUID `5b8d0c2e-7f1a-4d3b-9c5e-1f3a8e7d2b6c` and the canonical name format are shared with the sibling workspace `gps-denied-onboard` (`components/c6_tile_cache/_uuid.py:TILE_NAMESPACE`). Both sides MUST produce byte-identical UUIDv5 output so an onboard-cached tile and a server-cached tile for the same `(z, x, y, source, flight_id)` are recognized as the same artifact without a round-trip. Changing the namespace constant on either side is a coordinated cross-repo break. (`inferred-from: Uuidv5.cs, AZ-503 task spec § Constraints`) - Fire-and-forget async processing with status polling (`inferred-from: queue + background service + status endpoint`) - JWT-validated callers only — every HTTP endpoint requires a valid HS256-signed Bearer token, validated locally against a shared `JWT_SECRET` per the suite-level auth contract (`suite/_docs/10_auth.md`). Issuer/audience are intentionally not validated yet; signature + lifetime + ≥32-byte key are. Per-endpoint permission claims (e.g. `permissions: ["GPS"]` on the UAV upload) layer on top of this baseline. **Authentication & Authorization** (AZ-487): - Validation library: `Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.JwtBearer` 10.0.7 (matches `Microsoft.AspNetCore.OpenApi` 10.0.7; AZ-496 bumped both packages from 8.0.21 → 8.0.25 in cycle 3 to close the cycle-1 D1 + cycle-2 D3 supply-chain findings, then AZ-500 bumped both 8.0.25 → 10.0.7 in cycle 4 as part of the .NET 8 → .NET 10 migration). The `TokenValidationParameters` shape is unchanged across the JwtBearer 8 → 10 jump — AZ-487/AZ-494 integration tests are the gate and all pass on .NET 10. - Signing key: read from the `JWT_SECRET` environment variable (preferred) or the `Jwt:Secret` configuration key. Startup fails fast if the resolved secret is unset, empty, or shorter than 32 bytes (HMAC-SHA256 minimum per RFC 2104 §3). - Token contract: `ValidateIssuerSigningKey = true`, `ValidateLifetime = true`, `RequireSignedTokens = true`, `RequireExpirationTime = true`, `ValidateIssuer = true` + `ValidIssuer = $JWT_ISSUER`, `ValidateAudience = true` + `ValidAudience = $JWT_AUDIENCE` (AZ-494), `ClockSkew = 30s`. The 5-minute JwtBearer default is intentionally tightened. - Authorization model: every endpoint registered in `Program.cs` is decorated with `.RequireAuthorization()`. AZ-488 adds `permissions`-claim policies on top of this baseline (UAV upload requires `GPS`). - Test infrastructure: `JwtTokenFactory` (unit tests) and `JwtTestHelpers` (integration tests) mint deterministic tokens against the same `JWT_SECRET`; the integration test runner attaches a default Bearer token to its shared `HttpClient` so legacy non-auth tests continue to exercise the protected endpoints unchanged. **Planned features** (confirmed by user, currently stubs): - MGRS endpoint — tile access via Military Grid Reference System coordinates **Multi-source tile producers** (live as of AZ-488; per-flight evidence isolation as of AZ-503): - *Google Maps* — `TileService.DownloadAndStoreTilesAsync` / `DownloadAndStoreSingleTileAsync` stamp `source='google_maps'`, `flight_id=NULL`, and a deterministic UUIDv5 `id` on every persisted row; tile JPEGs live under `{StorageConfig.TilesDirectory}/{zoom}/...` per the legacy grandfathered layout. `content_sha256` is computed from the on-disk JPEG body. - *UAV* — `POST /api/satellite/upload` (AZ-488; per-flight key extended by AZ-503) accepts a multipart batch of UAV-captured tiles, runs each item through a 5-rule quality gate (`UavTileQualityGate`), and persists accepted items via `ITileRepository.InsertAsync` with `source='uav'`, `flight_id = metadata.flightId` (or NULL for anonymous uploads), and a deterministic UUIDv5 `id`. UAV JPEGs live under `{StorageConfig.TilesDirectory}/uav/{flight_id or 'none'}/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.jpg`, so `rm -rf ./tiles/uav/{flight_id}/` removes one flight's evidence without touching other flights at overlapping cells. Requires the `GPS` permission claim on top of the JWT baseline. The N-source storage contract is authoritative in `_docs/02_document/contracts/data-access/tile-storage.md` (v2.0.0 — bumped jointly by AZ-503-foundation and AZ-505 in cycle 6 to capture the identity columns, `tiles_leaflet_path` covering index, and `location_hash`-keyed leaflet read rule). The UAV upload contract is authoritative in `_docs/02_document/contracts/api/uav-tile-upload.md` (v1.1.0; AZ-503 added an optional `flightId` field to per-item metadata — backward-compatible). The bulk tile-inventory contract is authoritative in `_docs/02_document/contracts/api/tile-inventory.md` (v1.0.0; AZ-505). Anything that reads or writes `tiles` MUST follow those contracts rather than re-deriving the rules from prose here. **Drift signals**: - `geofence_polygons` mentioned in AGENTS.md as a routes table column but does not exist in schema or entity — documentation drift ## 1. System Context **Problem being solved**: A GPS-denied UAV navigation service requires satellite imagery for positioning and route planning without GPS. This service pre-downloads satellite tiles from one or more imagery sources (currently Google Maps; future sources including UAV nadir camera upload and additional providers such as SatAR) for specified regions and routes, stores them alongside each other under a per-source storage key, and serves the most-recent row across sources on access. Tiles are stitched into composite images and packaged for offline use. **System boundaries**: The Satellite Provider is a self-contained backend service. It receives HTTP requests (region/route definitions), downloads tiles from Google Maps, stores them on disk and in PostgreSQL, and produces output files (images, CSVs, ZIPs). **External systems**: | System | Integration Type | Direction | Purpose | |--------|-----------------|-----------|---------| | Satellite imagery provider (e.g., Google Maps) | HTTPS (tile download) | Outbound | First implementation of the multi-source `tiles` storage; provider-agnostic via `ISatelliteDownloader`. Stamps `source='google_maps'` on every persisted row. | | GPS-Denied Service (UAV) | REST API (multipart) | Inbound | Producer of `source='uav'` rows via `POST /api/satellite/upload` (AZ-488). Authenticates with a JWT carrying the `GPS` permission claim; items pass through the 5-rule quality gate before persistence. | | PostgreSQL | TCP (Npgsql) | Both | Tile metadata, region/route state | | File System | Local disk | Both | Tile image storage, output artifacts | | HTTP Clients | REST API | Inbound | Region/route requests, tile queries | ## 2. Technology Stack | Layer | Technology | Version | Rationale | |-------|-----------|---------|-----------| | Language | C# | 14.0 (was 12.0 through cycle 3 — AZ-500) | .NET ecosystem, strong typing | | Framework | ASP.NET Core (Minimal API) | 10.0 (was 8.0 through cycle 3 — AZ-500) | Lightweight HTTP hosting | | Database | PostgreSQL | 15+ | Reliable RDBMS, spatial-friendly | | ORM | Dapper | latest | Micro-ORM, raw SQL control | | Migrations | DbUp | latest | Simple SQL-file-based schema migrations | | Image Processing | SixLabors.ImageSharp | 3.1.11 | Cross-platform image manipulation | | Logging | Serilog | 8.0.3 | Structured logging with file sinks | | Hosting | Docker (docker-compose) | — | Containerized deployment | | CI/CD | Woodpecker CI | — | Lightweight self-hosted CI | ## 3. Deployment Model **Environments**: Development (docker-compose), Production (Docker) **Infrastructure**: - Docker-based containerized deployment - PostgreSQL as a separate container - Shared volumes for tile storage and output artifacts - No cloud provider dependency (self-hosted capable) **Environment-specific configuration**: | Config | Development | Production | |--------|-------------|------------| | Database | localhost:5433 (Docker) | Container network `db:5432` | | Secrets | appsettings.Development.json | Environment variables | | Logging | Console + File | File (./logs/) | | API URL | http://localhost:5100 | http://0.0.0.0:5100 | ## 4. Data Model Overview **Core entities**: | Entity | Description | Owned By Component | |--------|-------------|--------------------| | Tile | A single satellite image tile with coordinates and zoom | TileDownloader | | Region | A square area request with processing status | RegionProcessing | | Route | A named path with geofence polygons | RouteManagement | | RoutePoint | An individual point (original or interpolated) on a route | RouteManagement | **Key relationships**: - Route → RoutePoint: one-to-many (a route has many sequential points) - Route → Region: many-to-many via `route_regions` (each route point generates a region) - Region → Tile: implicit (a processed region references tiles by coordinate/zoom) **Data flow summary**: - Client → API → Queue → BackgroundService → GoogleMaps → FileSystem + DB: tile acquisition pipeline - Client → API → RouteService → PointInterpolation → RegionCreation → Queue: route-to-region expansion ## 5. Integration Points ### Internal Communication | From | To | Protocol | Pattern | Notes | |------|----|----------|---------|-------| | WebApi | RegionProcessing | In-process queue (Channel) | Fire-and-forget | Request queued, status polled. Uses `IRegionService` / `IRegionRequestQueue` from Common. | | WebApi | TileDownloader | `ITileService` (Common interface) | Request-Response | Single-tile reads (`GetOrDownloadTileAsync`) and writes (`DownloadAndStoreSingleTileAsync`) flow through `ITileService` since AZ-310 / AZ-311. No direct dependency on the concrete `GoogleMapsDownloaderV2`. | | RegionProcessing | TileDownloader | `ITileService` (Common interface) | Request-Response | Per-tile within region processing. Resolved through DI; no compile-time `ProjectReference` between RegionProcessing and TileDownloader csprojs. | | RouteManagement | RegionProcessing | `IRegionService` / `IRegionRequestQueue` (Common interfaces) | Fire-and-forget | Route regions submitted to queue. No compile-time `ProjectReference` between RouteManagement and RegionProcessing csprojs. | | All Services | DataAccess | Direct method call (via repository interfaces) | Repository pattern | Dapper queries | ### External Integrations | External System | Protocol | Auth | Rate Limits | Failure Mode | |----------------|----------|------|-------------|--------------| | Satellite imagery provider (abstracted via `ISatelliteDownloader`; first implementation: Google Maps) | HTTPS GET | Provider-specific (e.g., session token) | Configured concurrency (MaxConcurrentDownloads) | Retry with backoff, mark region failed | ## 6. Non-Functional Requirements | Requirement | Target | Measurement | Priority | |------------|--------|-------------|----------| | Concurrent Downloads | 4 (configurable) | SemaphoreSlim limit | High | | Concurrent Regions | 20 (configurable) | Processing config | Medium | | Queue Capacity | 1000 requests | Channel bounded capacity | Medium | | Tile Deduplication | 100% (no re-download) | DB lookup before fetch | High | | Max Zip Size | 50 MB | Route zip output | Medium | ## 7. Security Architecture **Authentication**: HS256 JWT Bearer tokens (AZ-487 + AZ-494). Signing key from `JWT_SECRET` env var (≥ 32 bytes, validated at startup). Issuer and audience claims are validated against `JWT_ISSUER` / `JWT_AUDIENCE` env vars (AZ-494) — both required, fail-fast at startup if unset. `Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.JwtBearer` validates signature, lifetime, signing key, issuer, and audience. ClockSkew tightened from JwtBearer default (5 min) to 30 s. Tokens are minted by the centralized Admin API per `suite/_docs/10_auth.md`; their `iss` and `aud` claims MUST match the satellite-provider configured values or validation rejects with 401. **Authorization**: Every endpoint requires authentication via `.RequireAuthorization()`. Permission-claim enforcement is layered on top through the `PermissionsRequirement` authorization handler, which reads the `permissions` claim (accepting either repeated string claims OR a single JSON-array string). AZ-488 wires the `RequiresGpsPermission` policy on `POST /api/satellite/upload` — callers without `GPS` receive HTTP 403; other endpoints accept any authenticated principal. **Data protection**: - At rest: No encryption (tiles stored as plain JPEG files) - In transit: HTTPS for Google Maps calls; API itself runs HTTP behind Kestrel (TLS termination is a deployment-layer concern) - Secrets management: `JWT_SECRET` and `GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY` from environment variables / `.env` (gitignored); `.env.example` documents the required keys. Production deployments MUST supply both via the host environment, never via the appsettings files. **Audit logging**: Serilog writes to file; logs exceptions and processing state transitions. 401/403 responses are emitted by the JwtBearer middleware via the `WWW-Authenticate` header; no body leakage of internal details. ## 8. Key Architectural Decisions ### ADR-001: Minimal API over Controller-based **Context**: Project needed a lightweight HTTP layer for a small set of endpoints. **Decision**: Use ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs (no controllers, no MVC). **Consequences**: Less ceremony, all routing in `Program.cs`, but less structure for future growth. ### ADR-002: Dapper over Entity Framework **Context**: Database access is straightforward CRUD with some spatial queries. **Decision**: Use Dapper for raw SQL control and performance, paired with DbUp for schema migrations. **Consequences**: Full SQL control, no ORM overhead; trade-off is manual mapping and no change tracking. ### ADR-003: In-Process Queue over External Message Broker **Context**: Region/route processing needs to be asynchronous but the system is a single service. **Decision**: Use `System.Threading.Channels` as an in-process bounded queue. **Consequences**: Simple, no external dependencies; but limited to single-instance deployment — no horizontal scaling of workers. ### ADR-004: File-Based Tile Storage **Context**: Tiles are immutable JPEG images that need fast random access. **Decision**: Store tiles as files in a directory hierarchy with metadata in PostgreSQL. The layout is per-source (and per-flight for UAV since AZ-503) so the bytes for distinct producers / flights at the same cell remain individually addressable on disk: - Google Maps (legacy, grandfathered): `{StorageConfig.TilesDirectory}/{zoom}/{x_bucket}/{y_bucket}/tile_{zoom}_{x}_{y}_{timestamp}.jpg` - UAV anonymous (AZ-488 baseline): `{StorageConfig.TilesDirectory}/uav/none/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.jpg` - UAV per-flight (AZ-503): `{StorageConfig.TilesDirectory}/uav/{flight_id}/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.jpg` The authoritative source/flight markers are the `tiles.source` and `tiles.flight_id` columns; the per-source / per-flight on-disk path matters only for write isolation and bulk-delete granularity. **Consequences**: Fast reads, easy backup/migration, producers can run without colliding on bytes, and per-flight `rm -rf` becomes safe. Requires shared filesystem for multi-instance (not currently needed). No migration of pre-AZ-488 Google Maps files is shipped — the legacy layout stays intact. Pre-AZ-503 UAV files written by the AZ-488 baseline at `./tiles/uav/{z}/{x}/{y}.jpg` (no flight segment) are not relocated by the migration; the post-AZ-503 code writes anonymous uploads to `./tiles/uav/none/{z}/{x}/{y}.jpg` and the original AZ-488-era files stay where they were. This is acceptable because AZ-488 only landed in cycle 2 and the volume of pre-AZ-503 UAV bytes is small (no production UAV upload traffic yet). ### ADR-005: Background Hosted Services for Processing **Context**: Region and route processing is long-running and should not block HTTP requests. **Decision**: Use `IHostedService` implementations that consume from the in-process queue. **Consequences**: Clean separation of request handling and processing; lifecycle managed by the host. ## 9. Input Validation (AZ-795) Every public HTTP endpoint MUST reject malformed or out-of-range payloads with HTTP 400 + RFC 7807 `ValidationProblemDetails`. The shared infrastructure landed in AZ-795 (cycle 7) is two collaborating layers: 1. **Deserializer-level rejection** — `JsonSerializerOptions.UnmappedMemberHandling.Disallow` configured in `Program.cs` (`ConfigureHttpJsonOptions`) catches unknown fields, type mismatches, and malformed JSON. The framework wraps the resulting `JsonException` in `BadHttpRequestException`; `GlobalExceptionHandler` extracts the JSON path and emits a structured `ValidationProblemDetails` body. 2. **Business-rule rejection** — `FluentValidation` 12.0.0 validators registered via `AddValidatorsFromAssemblyContaining()` and wired through the generic `ValidationEndpointFilter` (`SatelliteProvider.Api/Validators/ValidationEndpointFilter.cs`). Endpoints opt in via `RouteHandlerBuilder.WithValidation()`; the filter calls `Results.ValidationProblem(result.ToDictionary())` on failure. Both layers produce the wire shape documented in `_docs/02_document/contracts/api/error-shape.md` (v1.0.0). ### Validator coverage | Endpoint | Request DTO | Validator | Status | Owning task | |----------|-------------|-----------|--------|-------------| | `POST /api/satellite/tiles/inventory` | `TileInventoryRequest` | `InventoryRequestValidator` | covered | AZ-796 (cycle 7) | | `GET /tiles/{z}/{x}/{y}` | route params | (route-constraint only — `:int` covers types; AZ-795 deserializer guards body shape on POST endpoints only) | covered by route-constraint | AZ-487 (cycle 1, JWT gate) | | `GET /api/satellite/tiles/latlon` | query params | (query-binding type checks via `[FromQuery]`; future AZ-795 child task to add explicit FluentValidation) | partial | future AZ-795 child | | `POST /api/satellite/upload` | `UavTileBatchUploadRequest` (multipart) | (envelope-level validation in `UavTileUploadHandler`; future AZ-795 child to formalize as FluentValidation) | partial | future AZ-795 child | | `POST /api/satellite/request` | `RequestRegionRequest` | (inline `SizeMeters` range check; future AZ-795 child) | partial | future AZ-795 child | | `POST /api/satellite/route` | `CreateRouteRequest` | (typed `ArgumentException` path → 400; future AZ-795 child) | partial | future AZ-795 child | | `GET /api/satellite/region/{id:guid}` | route param | (route-constraint `:guid`) | covered by route-constraint | — | | `GET /api/satellite/route/{id:guid}` | route param | (route-constraint `:guid`) | covered by route-constraint | — | | `GET /api/satellite/tiles/mgrs` | (stub) | n/a — returns 501 | n/a | AZ-356 | The `partial` rows are tracked under the AZ-795 epic; per-endpoint child tickets to be filed by parent-suite team after enumerating the surface from the OpenAPI spec.