Alternative methods of determining the orientation of a stellar camera

Stellar photography has found use in the calibration of mapping cameras and in determining the orientation of the stellar cameras serving as attitude sensors, e.g. the lunar mapping cameras on the NASA Apollo 15, 16, and 17 missions. The equations used to relate the image measurements to the attitud...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rae, Scott M.
Other Authors: Civil Engineering
Format: Dissertation
Language:en_US
Published: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/64490