Correlation and Initial Orbit Determination for Short-Arc Optical Observations
Abstract
Situational awareness of Earth-orbiting particles is highly important for future human activities in space. For optical observations of debris, multiple observations must be combined in order to determine the orbit of the observed object. It is generally uncertain, however, whether two arbitrary tracks are of the same object, and solving this problem can be computationally intensive. In this paper, we propose a technique of correlating multiple optical observations by means of probability distributions in Poincare orbit element space.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2010
- Accession Number
- ADA531732
Entities
People
- Daniel J. Scheeres
- Kohei Fujimoto
Organizations
- University of Colorado Boulder