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Technical note: asteroid detection demonstration from SkySat-3* B612 data using synthetic tracking

Technical note: asteroid detection demonstration from SkySat-3* B612 data using synthetic tracking

Zhai, C.; Shao, M.; Lai, S.; Boerner, P.; Dyer, J.; Lu, E.; Reitsema, H.; Buie, M.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2014/45966
Date: 2018-01-01
Keywords: Instrumentation; Photography
Publisher: Pasadena, CA: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2018
Citation: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, January 1, 2018

Abstract:

We report results from analyzing the data taken by the sCMOS cameras on board of SkySat3 using the synthetic tracking technique. The analysis demonstrates the expected sensitivity improvement in the signal-to-noise ratio of the faint asteroids from properly stacking up the short exposure images in post-processing.

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