Abstract
Around 18,000 known objects currently populate the near Earth space. These constitute active space assets as well as space debris objects. The tracking and cataloging of such objects relies on observations, most of which are ground based. Also, because of the great distance to the objects, only non-resolved object images can be obtained from the observations.
Keywords
celestial images, centroid estimation, charge-coupled device (CCD), Gaussian approximation, sensor noise, space situational awareness (SSA)
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics
Department
Aeronautics and Astronautics
First Advisor
Carolin Frueh
Committee Member 1
Inseok Hwang
Committee Member 2
James L. Garrison
Date of Award
January 2016
Recommended Citation
Manish, Raja, "Profile fitting in crowded astronomical images" (2016). Open Access Theses. 1189.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_theses/1189