Semester project realized for the SSA (Space Situational Awareness) association at EPFL.
The purpose of this project is to extract the intensity along the satellite streaks that can be found in images that were obtained by OMEGACAM on the VLT Survey Telescope. In this project, we only analyzed the long tracks that were created by high velocity objects, to try to get an estimation about their rotation. We used Fourier transform to get the periodicity of the intensity along the tracks. Due to the lack of real data about rotation, we first had to create fake streaks with sinusoid intensity and different angles. We manually got the tracks to run the code on them, so ideally this project should be integrated with DetectSat so that all the process can be done automatically
The code of DetectSat was originally developped by Yann Bouquet
Distributed under the MIT License