Selected Modules from the Slovak Image Processing Pipeline for Space Debris and Near Earth Objects Observations and Research

摘要

The Division of Astronomy and Astrophysics of Comenius University was granted resources from the first Plan for European Cooperating States (PECS) project as the ninth European Cooperating State with European Space Agency (ESA) to transform a newly acquired telescope to a professional observation device. One of the goals of the transformation was the design and development of an image processing pipeline which would be able to process an acquired raw image of space debris into object observations in time (tracklets), further correlate them with selected catalogs and identify them. The system contains 9 Image Processing Elements (IPEs) in total.