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Title
Two conceptual designs for optical system of next- generation small satellites
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Abstract
In this paper, two new techniques are proposed for manipulation of the microsatellite imaging structures and sensors in order to reduce the micro-satellite's weight and improve the image quality. Theses satellites generally include three mirrors. First, replacing primary mirror by deformable mirror with appropriate actuators is suggested. In this design, the primary mirror is replaced with deformable mirror (DM) and the secondary mirror can be aligned in the cassegrain design and tertiary mirror could be ignored. Second, by changing the position of sensor, the image quality of different pixels could be changed. Normally, when the sensor is fixed, parts of the image might be blurred, noisy and distorted. Therefore, if the sensor is capable of changing its position, the quality of the distorted pixels will be improved but other parts will become blurred. In this case blurred pixels should be omitted and improved pixels should be saved and final image would be taken form processed pixels. In this paper a new concept of "local focusing" is introduced. This concept aims to process images at a variable distance of a sensor, which can cause the final image quality to become better than the fixed sensor.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Proceedings of the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers / SPIE: International Society for Optical Engineering. - Bellingham, Wash.
Source (book)
Conference on Sensors, Systems, and Next- Generation Satellites XIX, SEP 21-24, 2015, Toulouse, FRANCE
Publication
Bellingham : Spie-int soc optical engineering , 2015
ISSN
0277-786X
ISBN
978-1-62841-849-1
978-1-62841-849-1
DOI
10.1117/12.2194097
Volume/pages
9639 (2015) , 6 p.
Article Reference
96391J
ISI
000367945500044
Medium
E-only publicatie
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