A survey of camera modules for CubeSats - Design of imaging payload of ICUBE-1

Khurshid, Khurram; Mahmood, Rehan; Islam, Qamar Ul

doi:10.1109/rast.2013.6581337

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“…The first of these was the CubeSat XI-IV, developed by the University of Tokyo to validate the effective use of commercial of the shelf (COTS) components in the development of RS payloads (Funase et al, 2006;Enokuchi et al, 2015); this was based on the commercial module C3188A of Quasar Electronics that employs an OV7620 sensor. In the same way, the picosatellite ITU-pSAT-1 and the Compass-1 employed this same integrated camera module (Khurshid et al, 2013;Scholz et al, 2010). However, none of the three missions has published detailed information on the process of acquisition and storage of RS's images, for subsequent download to the ground station.…”

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Identification of Design Considerations for Small Satellite Remote Sensing Systems in Low Earth Orbit

Triana

Bautista

González

2015

J.Aerosp. Technol. Manag.

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The Sergio Arboleda University is preparing its next satellite mission, named Libertad 2. It will carry out a system of image acquisition as a working tool for researches based on the obtained data. Complete methodologies are often used in the development of satellite missions for planning, execution and deployment, for example, the standards of the European Cooperation for Space Standardization; these methodologies, however, do not include technical specifications or requirements for the development of nano-satellites nor for their subsystems. For this reason, this article focuses on the identification of the characteristics, requirements and restrictions, which must be considered in the design of a remote sensing system for satellites under the CubeSat standard, in order to serve as a starting point for the development of the main payload of the Libertad 2 mission.

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Identification of Design Considerations for Small Satellite Remote Sensing Systems in Low Earth Orbit

Triana

Bautista

González

2015

J.Aerosp. Technol. Manag.

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“…As stated in [13], the main objective of their (ICUBE1), which was the first Pakistan CubeSat satellite, was to allow students to familiarize themselves with satellite imaging system which involves image capture, image analysis, compression, storage and retrieval. However, their objectives were not to get high resolution earth images, but to take low resolution images, store them and successfully send them to a ground station.…”

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Development of Nanosatellite based Image Retrieval system

Gashayija¹,

Bierman²

2014

IJCA

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Rapid development of nanosatellites has led to many unique and innovative space applications. These tiny satellites have come a long way since Sputnik, the first satellite that was launched in 1957, weighing 83 kg. The success of the CubeSat has revolutionized space technology. Typically, these CubeSat fall into categories of nanosatellites weighing no more than 1.33 Kg and using less power than a five watt light bulb. Mostly, CubeSat has one or more payloads such as Imaging Payload, Scientific payload and High Frequency (HF) Radio Beacon.With the Imaging payload their task is to capture low or high resolution images of the earth observation missions. With the steadily increasing demand for CubeSat imaging payload missions, several nano-satellites have been launched, and thousands of low/high resolution images are acquired every day and transmitted to ground stations. This leads to an exponential increase in the number of low/high resolution images in databases. Therefore, how to retrieve useful images quickly and accurately from a huge and unstructured image database becomes a challenge.In this project, it proposes the use of a content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system relying on a combination of the three low level features such as color, shape and texture features. In order to accurately classify and retrieve useful information in a huge image database. The evaluation performance of the proposed system when compared to other existing systems provides a precision value of 1 or 100%. It can be concluded that the proposed system is able to classify images and retrieve results in a reasonable time of at least 15 seconds.

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“…Distance between the centers of 2 neighboring pixel areas, on the ground 5. Average revisit gap is the long-term average time between sightings of a particular target 6.…”

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Rapid model-based inter-disciplinary design of a CubeSat mission

Lowe¹,

Macdonald²

2014

Acta Astronautica

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With an increase in the use of small, modular, resource-limited satellites for Earth orbiting applications, the benefit to be had from a model-based architecture that rapidly searches the mission trade-space and identifies near-optimal designs is greater than ever. This work presents an architecture that identifies trends between conflicting objectives (e.g. lifecycle cost and performance) and decision variables (e.g. orbit altitude and inclination) such that informed assessment can be made as to which design/s to take on for further analysis. The models within the architecture exploit analytic methods where possible, in order avoid computationally expensive numerical propagation, and achieve rapid convergence. Two mission cases are studied; the first is an Earth observation satellite and presents a trade-off between ground sample distance and revisit time over a ground target, given altitude as the decision variable. The second is a satellite with a generic scientific payload and shows a more involved trade-off, between data return to a ground station and cost of the mission, given variations in the orbit altitude, inclination and ground station latitude. Results of each case are presented graphically and it is clear that non-intuitive results are captured that would typically be missed using traditional, point-design methods, where only discrete scenarios are examined

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A survey of camera modules for CubeSats - Design of imaging payload of ICUBE-1

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Identification of Design Considerations for Small Satellite Remote Sensing Systems in Low Earth Orbit

Identification of Design Considerations for Small Satellite Remote Sensing Systems in Low Earth Orbit

Development of Nanosatellite based Image Retrieval system

Rapid model-based inter-disciplinary design of a CubeSat mission

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