{"title":"Remote sensing image enhancement via bilateral filtering","authors":"N. H. Kaplan, I. Erer, N. Gulmus","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2017.8002981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2017.8002981","url":null,"abstract":"Remote sensing image enhancement methods have to increase the contrast and emphasize the edges, while preserving the color. In this study, an enhancement method based on bilateral filtering is proposed. We propose to extract the details of the image by a multiscale bilateral filter and add these details to the original image using a weighting scheme. Visual results and evaluation metrics show that the proposed method, enhance the image better than the former methods while it better preserves the original color information.","PeriodicalId":434418,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115957474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent advances in GNSS: Technical and legal aspects","authors":"Muzaffer Kahvecı","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2017.8002950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2017.8002950","url":null,"abstract":"The use of artificial satellites for navigational purposes started with Sputnik-I on 04th October, 1957. Transit-I was the first navigation satellite system and observations made on signals from the first Sputnik was started in December 1958. And thus Transit-I became a worldwide navigation system starting from 1964. Soon, it became clear that a global navigation satellite system had much to offer particularly for military users. Consequently, Following the system design studies during 1967–1969, U.S. DoD (Department of Defence) developed a worldwide a space-based navigation system in 1970s. And this system was called as NAVSTAR GPS (NAVigation Satellites by Timing And Ranging Global Positioning System). GPS, originally, was developed to satisfy the U.S. military operational need for a precise navigation system and has been used only for U.S. military purposes until 1980s. But later realizing its potential civil uses, it has been opened to all users free of charge starting from 1980. On the other hand, development of GLONASS began in the Soviet Union in 1976 and the “constellation” was completed in 1995. With the advent of GLONASS system, the term GNSS was begun to be used. As an economic and globally available accurate source of positioning and timing information, GNSS contributes to emerging technologies and applications. Some widely used GNSS-related emerging trends are LBS, multi-modality (road, aviation, maritime and rail), agriculture, surveying, Internet of Things, Big Data, Augmented Reality, Smart Cities, and Multimodal Logistics. On the other hand, using positioning info from GNSS and satellite images from, e.g., QuickBird data, together with digital maps (e.g. Google Earth/Maps) have increased their importance at the national and international levels. And thus, obtaining and using above mentioned data have brought some administrative and legal problems together.","PeriodicalId":434418,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115037704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparison of linear and nonlinear measurements based orbit estimation EKFs","authors":"Murat Bağci, C. Hajiyev","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2017.8002999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2017.8002999","url":null,"abstract":"Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) is a well-known technique in GPS based orbit estimation studies. Pseudoranges, which are established by spaceborne onboard satellite GPS receiver data, are directly used in these classical approaches as nonlinear measurements. On the other hand, the position vector components can be extracted from pseudoranges with an acceptable error tolerance via utilization of a preprocessing block before the EKF algorithm. In this way, these coarse position values can be employed as linear measurements in the EKF algorithm which might be called modern approach. In this paper, the linear and nonlinear measurements based orbit estimation EKF algorithms are developed and analyzed. The Multivariate Newton-Raphson Method (NRM) is used in the modern EKF as preprocessing block. The Auto-Assignment block is implemented for setting up initial state vector in the proposed modern EKF algorithm. The Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite's orbital motion is simulated via the J2 perturbative orbit model. Statistical analysis shows that better results can be obtained by using linear measurements in the GPS based orbit estimation EKF algorithm, compared to traditional approach. By contrast, the classical approach is required less computational time. The design complexity of the filter is considerably reduced in the modern approach because of the preprocessing block application.","PeriodicalId":434418,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST)","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124086549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guidance and economical digital attitude control of a land-survey satellite","authors":"T. Somova","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2017.8002991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2017.8002991","url":null,"abstract":"We consider a maneuvering land-survey satellite with a digital attitude control system equipped by a strapdown inertial navigation system with astronomical correction, a cluster of four reaction wheels and a magnetic driver. The matrices of optoelectronic converters work in the mode of time delay and integration during optoelectronic observation of the Earth surface parts by a set of routes for their scanning. We study the problems on analytical synthesis of the vector spline attitude guidance laws for the scanning land-survey routes and the spacecraft rotational maneuvers, and also the problems on synthesis of the satellite economical attitude control laws for fulfillment of the guidance laws.","PeriodicalId":434418,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST)","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126203723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Y. Erdem, Aras M. Numan Uyar, M. C. Soydan, M. Harmankaya, Furkan Alan, B. Akbulut
{"title":"Developing and modelling of satellite docking algorithm","authors":"Y. Erdem, Aras M. Numan Uyar, M. C. Soydan, M. Harmankaya, Furkan Alan, B. Akbulut","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2017.8002987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2017.8002987","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, a stereovision sensor system hardware and an algorithm are developed to be utilized in autonomous satellite rendezvous applications. A two dimensional representative environment is also being developed consisting of omni wheel robots to test breadboard model of the sensor system in a similar proximity operation scenario. The sensor hardware is designed according to predefined requirements keeping the limitations of the satellites. The sensor is able to estimate position, orientation, linear and angular velocity of a target object whose shape and sizes are known a priori. The detection system relies on specific reference markers and extracted BRISK feature points. Both of stereo and monocular vision approaches are used to detect object and estimate its distance, followed by reverse rigid body transformation to estimate the target?s 3D location and orientation. Time difference between two subsequent frames is used for estimating linear and angular velocities. Additionally, a path-planning algorithm is developed to approach target object in an efficient way.","PeriodicalId":434418,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133894826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of unmanned semi-autonomous smart probe for near earth space research operations","authors":"Evren Daglarli, E. Aribas","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2017.8003015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2017.8003015","url":null,"abstract":"To conduct studies related to our planet and its atmosphere at high altitudes above 100 km from the ground requires to overcome great challenges. These studies can include meteorological, geographical and astrophysical missions. In this paper, we designed a high altitude unmanned semi-autonomous probe with helium gas balloon for general purpose near Earth space studies. Also hardware architecture of our proposed system includes high performance computing module, Low-level control systems, propulsion/steering mechanisms, radio telemetry system, real-time measurement and data acquisition system, fail-safe mechanisms and real-time vision system. 3D solid design of the system contains helium gas balloon, main flight capsule (craft), peripheral equipment (e.g. cameras, battery packs, radio antenna, etc.) to be connected to the craft and payload capsule. In the future, our probe can be customized according to the other specified missions.","PeriodicalId":434418,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132821381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nonlinear simulation of solar sail spacecraft guided motion for near-Earth object exploration","authors":"R. Khabibullin, O. Starinova","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2017.8002973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2017.8002973","url":null,"abstract":"This paper outlines the nonlinear flight simulation of a research solar sail spacecraft. The unique features of a solar sail spacecraft construction are described. The mathematical motion model within the heliocentric system of coordinates for solar sail spacecraft is formulated. The special software for solar sail spacecraft flight simulation, which is developed on the basis of the formulated mathematical model, also described. The guided flight to the potentially hazardous asteroid of a solar sail spacecraft is simulated. The nonlinear simulation findings consist of flight trajectory, flight duration and dependency graphs of flight parameters against flight duration. The results demonstrate a capability to the use solar sailing technology for flight to a potentially hazardous asteroid.","PeriodicalId":434418,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131501791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transformation of surface reflectance of Göktürk-2 images using image-based methods","authors":"Ersan Batur, D. Maktav","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2017.8003012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2017.8003012","url":null,"abstract":"Atmospheric correction is an important requirement in the pre-processing of satellite images for many applications. In this study, the validity of image-based atmospheric correction methods for Göktürk-2, the first high-resolution reconnaissance and surveillance satellite of Turkey, was evaluated. A comparison was made between the Top of Atmosphere (ToA), Dark Object Subtraction (DOS), and Cosine of the Solar Zenith Angle Correction (COST) methods applied to the Göktürk-2 image. First the image radiance value was calculated, and then the reflectance values were obtained using ToA, DOS and COST algorithms. Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) was calculated to evaluate the quality of the methods. A cross-section corresponding to the same area was taken from the NDVI images and comparison was made between image-based atmospheric correction methods. In comparison, it was seen that DOS and COST methods eliminate atmospheric effects by using the information in Göktürk-2 images without any real-time measurements. COST method gives more accurate results in Göktürk-2 images since it is based on images and uses atmospheric transmittance information in the direction of illumination.","PeriodicalId":434418,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127289022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Alici, O. Karci, A. Yilmaz, C. Ozdemir, F. Oktem, O. Selimoglu
{"title":"OTF analysis of a spaceborne CMOS imaging sensor","authors":"K. Alici, O. Karci, A. Yilmaz, C. Ozdemir, F. Oktem, O. Selimoglu","doi":"10.1109/RAST.2017.8002972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RAST.2017.8002972","url":null,"abstract":"We present the optical transfer function (OTF) analysis of a spaceborne imaging sensor. This includes the effects of detector footprint, diffusion, smear, jitter, sampling, and time delay and integration. Each effect is analyzed under various design choices one of which corresponds to our designed complementary metal-oxide semiconductor imaging sensor. Effect of each subsystem is separately demonstrated using OTF values and corresponding degradation on a test image.","PeriodicalId":434418,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST)","volume":"207 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129390842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Space mining","authors":"Nazli Can","doi":"10.1109/rast.2017.8002957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/rast.2017.8002957","url":null,"abstract":"At the 6th RAST conference in 2013 I have examined the legal regulations concerning the space mining. Two years later; on 25th of November 2015 the U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law the U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act; which gives the U.S. companies and citizens the right to own and sell natural resources that they mine from space. Following that Government of Luxembourg announced a € 200 million fund for enticing asteroid mining companies. Therefore I would like the examine the legal aspect of space mining and also discuss the current issues.","PeriodicalId":434418,"journal":{"name":"2017 8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies (RAST)","volume":"240 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123261169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}