A novel active pixels sensor (APS) based sun sensor based on a feature extraction and image correlation (FEIC) technique

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Xing, Fei ^a   You, Zheng ^a   Zhang, Gaofei ^a   Sun, Jian ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

APS sun sensor; Feature extraction; Image correlation

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER DEVICES; EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEMS; PIXELS;

ACTIVE PIXEL SENSOR; DETECTOR PLANES; IMAGE CORRELATIONS; IMAGE LOCATIONS; LARGE FIELD OF VIEWS; MICRO ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM (MEMS); SPACE ENVIRONMENT; SUN SENSOR;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 64549123417     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: 13616501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/19/12/125203     Document Type: Article

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