Optical Sensor Constraints on Space Object Detection Admissable Regions

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Worthy, Johnny L.
Holzinger, Marcus J.
Fujimoto, Kohei
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Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering
The Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics was established in 1931, with a name change in 1962 to the School of Aerospace Engineering
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This paper presents work on a model to simulate the space debris environment based on optical sensor detection constraints of line of sight, illumination, and visual magnitude. Through analysis, the performance of pointing trajectories, such as the automated sensors in the Space Surveillance Network (SSN), can be optimized based on the shapes of these constraints. This application is particularly of interest to space based sensors and the design of space based space surveillance missions. The presented constraints are also found to be dependent on range to the space object. This dependence is used to apply additional constraints to the admissible region further aiding in initial state estimation of space objects observed from space.
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2013-08
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