A Tutorial on Horizon-Based Optical Navigation and Attitude Determination With Space Imaging Systems

Images of a nearby celestial body collected by a camera on an exploration spacecraft contain a wealth of actionable information. This work considers how the apparent location of the observed body's horizon in a digital image may be used to infer the relative position, attitude, or both. When th...

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Main Author: John A. Christian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2021-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9326288/