TY - GEN
T1 - Characterisation of Geosynchronous satellites through the analysis of on-sky polarimetric signatures obtained with a micropolariser array image sensor
AU - Polo, Manuel Cegarra
AU - Vaughn, Israel
AU - Kamal, Tahseen
AU - Lambert, Andrew
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Author(s).
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - We measured passive polarisation of reflected sunlight with an amateur class telescope, and analysed the polarisation components in unresolved images obtained using a micropolariser array camera to better characterise satellites in the geosynchronous belt. Our results show the presence of polarimetric signatures when observing different objects, which indicates the potential for identification and classification of objects in terms of different attributes, like, aging of materials, attitude and geometry of the spacecraft.
AB - We measured passive polarisation of reflected sunlight with an amateur class telescope, and analysed the polarisation components in unresolved images obtained using a micropolariser array camera to better characterise satellites in the geosynchronous belt. Our results show the presence of polarimetric signatures when observing different objects, which indicates the potential for identification and classification of objects in terms of different attributes, like, aging of materials, attitude and geometry of the spacecraft.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85085650036&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1364/ISA.2019.IM3B.3
DO - 10.1364/ISA.2019.IM3B.3
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85085650036
SN - 9781943580637
T3 - Optics InfoBase Conference Papers
BT - Imaging Systems and Applications, ISA 2019
PB - Optica Publishing Group
T2 - Imaging Systems and Applications, ISA 2019
Y2 - 24 June 2019 through 27 June 2019
ER -