Predictive centroiding for star trackers with the effect of image Smear

Journal of the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 113-123

  Samaan, Malak A ^a   Pollock, Thomas C ^a   Junkins, John L ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; IMAGE PROCESSING; KINEMATICS; SPACECRAFT; TRACKING (POSITION); ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; ANGULAR VELOCITY; COMPUTATION THEORY; DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION; GYROSCOPES; LOCATION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PIXELS; STARS;

STAR TRACKERS; ACTIVE PIXEL SENSOR; ATTITUDE ESTIMATES; HIGH FRAME RATE; KINEMATICS EQUATION; LOCAL IMAGE PROCESSING; LOST-IN-SPACE ALGORITHM; PIXEL INFORMATION; STAR CENTROIDING;

ASTROPHYSICS; STAR TRACKERS;

EID: 0036462098     PISSN: 00219142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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