Title
Estimation of an Observation Satellite’s Attitude Using Multimodal Pushbroom Cameras
Abstract
Pushbroom cameras are widely used for earth observation applications. This sensor acquires 1D images over time and uses the straight motion of the satellite to sweep out a region of space and build a 2D image. The stability of the satellite is critical during the pushbroom acquisition process. Therefore its attitude is assumed to be constant overtime. However, the recent manufacture of smaller and lighter satellites to reduce launching cost has weakened this assumption. Small oscillations of the satellite's attitude can result in noticeable warps in images, and geolocation information is lost as the satellite does not capture what it ought to. Current solutions use inertial sensors to control the attitude and correct the images, but they are costly and of limited precision. As the warped images do contain information about attitude variations, we suggest using image registration to estimate them. We exploit the geometry of the focal plane and the stationary nature of the disturbances to recover undistorted images. We embed the estimation in a Bayesian framework where image registration, a prior on attitude variations and a radiometric correction model are fused to retrieve the motion of the satellite. We illustrate the performance of our algorithm on four satellite datasets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/TPAMI.2014.2360394
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions  
Keywords
Field
DocType
bayes methods,artificial satellites,cameras,focal planes,geometry,geophysical image processing,image motion analysis,image registration,image sensors,1d image sensor,2d image,bayesian framework,earth observation applications,attitude variations,focal plane,geolocation information,inertial sensors,launching cost,multimodal pushbroom cameras,observation satellite attitude estimation,pushbroom acquisition process,radiometric correction model,satellite attitude oscillations,satellite datasets,satellite motion,satellite stability,straight motion,undistorted images,warped images,maximum a posteriori estimator,multimodal image registration,hyperparameter learning,pushbroom cameras,satellite attitude,satellites,radiometry
Computer vision,Satellite,Computer science,Cardinal point,Geolocation,Radiometry,Earth observation,Artificial intelligence,Inertial measurement unit,Image registration,Bayesian probability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
37
5
0162-8828
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.69
23
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Regis Perrier160.69
Elise Arnaud212610.05
Peter Sturm32696206.38
Mathias Ortner47810.81