Passive radiometric observations of geosynchronous satellites

Author

Payne, Tamara E. ; Gregory, Stephen A.

Author_Institution

Boeing LTS Inc., Kirtland Air Force Base, NM, USA

Volume

5

fYear

2004

fDate

6-13 March 2004

Abstract

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Directed Energy Directorate has collected and analyzed passive multispectral radiometric data for Space Situational Awareness (SSA) of geosynchronous satellites (GEOs). Two different filter sets have been used: astronomical broadband Johnson filters and a set of specialized filters designed to discriminate GEOs. The radiometric data of geosynchronous satellites were taken using a charge-coupled device (CCD) on the 24-inch Ritchey-Chretien telescope at Capilla Peak Observatory of the University of New Mexico. The target list is comprised of satellites with similar and dissimilar bus structures. Additionally, some of the satellites are in a cluster. The results presented will show the advances in classifying GEOs by their bus type and a resolution scenario of cluster cross tagging using these multispectral radiometric measurements.

Keywords

aerospace instrumentation; artificial satellites; astronomical observatories; astronomical telescopes; charge-coupled devices; filters; radiometry; Air Force Research Laboratory; Capilla Peak Observatory; Directed Energy Directorate; GEO classification; Ritchey-Chretien telescope; Space Situational Awareness; University of New Mexico; astronomical broadband Johnson filters; bus type; charge-coupled device; cluster cross tagging; filter sets; geosynchronous satellites; multispectral radiometric data; multispectral radiometric measurements; passive radiometric observations; specialized filters; Charge coupled devices; Filters; Laboratories; Monitoring; Observatories; Photometry; Radiometry; Satellite broadcasting; Tagging; Telescopes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE

ISSN

1095-323X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8155-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2004.1368094

Filename

1368094