Visible light is servely absorbed and scattered by the water when it is propagated underwater. The attenuiation coefficient, including the absorbtion and scattering, is related to the light wavelength closely. As a result, underwater image suffers from low contrast, low visibility and color distortion, leading to the difficulty increasement of visible light detection for underwater objects. In order to improve the quality of the underwater image, a revised veiling light estimation and image recovery approach is proposed based on the haze-lines method. Image region is splited into strikes to find the haze-lines. The consumption of veiling light estimation is reduced. Underwater image recovery results show that image with different color objects is enhanced obviously with the revised hazelines method. Except for the improvement of contrast and visibility, color fidelity is corrected as well, which is benefit for object detection.
Pulsed laser range-gated imaging system can reduce the influence of backscattered light in water. However, when searching for targets in unknown water, it is necessary to obtain the attenuation coefficient at the laser wavelength in the water. Usually, the attenuation coefficient of the water needs to be obtained by special instruments. In this paper, a numerical analysis method is proposed to extract the attenuation coefficient of water from the images collected by the range-gated imaging system. First, radiative transfer theory is used to model the imaging process of the pulsed laser range-gated imaging system. Then, the attenuation coefficient of the water is solved by numerical analysis method. At the same time, an experimental system is built to verify the method. The results under different water conditions show that, method in this paper is feasible and effective.
Calibration of the intrinsic parameters of a star sensor before and after its launch is essential. The existing techniques have not taken the centroiding error into consideration thoroughly. Meanwhile, the calibration operation is complex. Based on the principle of the SPGD algorithm, a calibration method fully considering the star image centroiding error is proposed in this work. Simulation result indicates that the intrinsic parameters are calibrated out and kept constantly after tens of iterations. The accuracy of principle point of the proposed SPGD based method is 4 times as the IAICM. As for the focus length, the accuracy is improved by 6 times compared to the IAICM. Simultaneously, the calibration operation becomes extremely simple
Star trackers are beyond dispute the most accuracy absolute attitude determination sensors which are widely applied
in spacecraft, satellites, rockets, etc. High precision autonomous star tracker has accuracy better than one arc second and
generally resulting in a low update rate less than 10Hz. Typically, an autonomous star tracker consist two physically
independent components, the optical head and the associated processing electronic system. High accuracy attitude is
obtained through their cooperation. Basic principles of star navigation and components of a star tracker will be
introduced. Star trackers used to be with big body size, heavy mass, high power consumption and complicated structure but
with low accuracy. The state-of-the-art development will decrease the power consumption and mass of autonomous star
trackers significantly while increase update rate and improve dynamic accuracy and system robustness. Advance of
different generations of star trackers will be reviewed here. The accuracy performance of the star tracker depends on the
sensitivity to the starlight of the image sensor, the star detection threshold, the field of view (FOV), the number of stars in
the FOV, the accuracy of the star centroid, the dynamic maneuvering, the calibration and etc. Star centroid is a key
procedure and contributes much more to the final performance of a star track. Accuracy degradation will occur when the
carrier of the star track is in the state of high dynamic maneuvering. Hardware design and algorithms remedies have to
been adopted to reduce the degradation effects. Detailed discussion of accuracy performance will be presented.
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