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Table of contents :
Preface
Contents
Organization
Analysis on NETD of Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometer
1 Introduction
2 Physical Mechanism of NETD
3 Modeling and Analysis
4 Conclusion and Future Work
References
Demand Analysis of Optical Remote Sensing Satellites Under the Belt and Road Initiative
1 Introduction
2 Basic Situation Along the Belt and Road
3 Status of Space-Based Remote Sensing Resources Along the Route
3.1 Status of Remote Sensing Resources in Countries Along the Route
3.1.1 Russia
3.1.2 India
3.1.3 Others
3.2 Other Available Resources
3.2.1 US Remote Sensing Satellite System
3.2.2 French Remote Sensing Satellite System
3.2.3 Italian Radar Satellite System
3.2.4 German Remote Sensing Satellite
4 Satellite Remote Sensing Application Needs Analysis
4.1 Emergency Disaster Reduction and Relief
4.2 Mineral Resources Survey
4.3 Survey Drawing
4.4 Weather Forecast and Climate Change Research
5 Conclusion
Bibliography
Design of an All-Spherical Catadioptric Telescope with Long Focal Length for High-Resolution CubeSat
1 Introduction
2 Telescope Design
2.1 Design Concepts
2.2 Aberration Analysis
2.3 Results and Evaluation
3 Tolerance
4 Conclusion
References
Design of Lobster-Eye Focusing System for Dark Matter Detection
1 Introduction
2 Progress
3 Lobster-Eye Optics Design
3.1 Design Principle
3.2 Wider FoV All-Sky Monitor Lobster-Eye Optics Design
3.3 Coating Design
3.3.1 Materials
3.3.2 Thickness
3.3.3 Roughness
3.4 Lobster-Eye Optics
3.5 Lobster-Eye Optics Test
4 Lobster-Eye Focusing System
4.1 Prototype
4.2 Detector
4.3 Imaging Test
5 Conclusion
References
Design of Satellite Payload Management Integrated Electronic System Based on Plug and Play Technology
1 Introduction
2 Overview and Application of SpaceWire Technology
3 Summary of Plug and Play Payload Management System Based on SpaceWire
3.1 Architecture Design of Plug and Play Payload Management System
3.2 Plug and Play Bus Protocol Analysis
4 Design of Plug and Play Payload Management Architecture Based on SpaceWire
4.1 Implementation of Plug and Play Bus Based on SpaceWire
4.1.1 Bus Monitoring Technology
4.1.2 Driver Bootstrap Technology
4.2 Plug and Play Bus Routing Scheme Based on SpaceWire
5 Design of Plug and Play Payload System Software Based on SpaceWire
5.1 Design of Plug and Play Integrated Control Software Architecture
5.2 Design of Plug and Play Payload Device Software Architecture
5.3 Plug and Play Payload System Software Operation Mechanism
6 Conclusion
References
Full Path Analysis of Impact on MTF of Remote Sensing Camera by Jitter Spectrum
1 Introduction
2 Creating Full Path Model
2.1 Vibration Source Model
2.2 Structural Model
2.3 Control Model
2.4 Optical Model
2.5 Structure-Optic Interface Program
3 Frequency Domain Analysis of Momentum Wheel Vibration
4 Time Domain Analysis of Momentum Wheel Vibration
5 Impact on MTF
6 Conclusion
References
Influence of Micro-Vibration Caused by Momentum Wheel on the Imaging Quality of Space Camera
1 Introduction
2 Transmission Characteristics of Micro-Vibration Acceleration
2.1 Micro-Vibration Ground Test
2.2 Transmission of Micro-Vibration Acceleration
2.3 Difference Between Single Running and Simultaneous Running
3 Analysis of Rotation Angle Produced by Micro-Vibration
3.1 The Establishment of the Finite Element Model
3.2 Calculation of Rotation Angle of Mirrors
4 Analysis of the Influence of Micro-Vibration on Imaging Quality
5 Conclusion
References
Integrated Design of Platform and Payload for Remote Sensing Satellite
1 Introduction
2 Integrated Mechanical Design Requirements
3 Integrated Mechanical Design Content
4 Integrated Overall Configuration and Layout Design
5 Integrated Structural Mechanics Design
6 Integrated Micro-Vibration Suppression Designs
7 Conclusions
Bibliography
Optical System Design of Space Remote Sensor Based on the Ritchey-Chretien Cassegrain System
1 Introduction
2 Design Requirements
3 The Calculation of System Parameters
4 Optical Design Principle of Space Remote Sensor
4.1 The Design of R-C Cassegrain System
4.2 Achromatic Principle of Rear Lens Group
5 Result of Design
5.1 Layout and Parameters of Space Optical Remote Sensor
5.2 Image Quality Evaluation
6 Conclusions
References
Suppression of the Self-Radiation Stray Light of Long-Wave Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometers
1 Introduction
2 System Design
3 Stray Light Analysis
3.1 Method I: The Introduction of the Cold Stop
3.2 Method II: The Whole Cooling Opto-Mechanical Parts
4 Conclusion
References
Star Camera Layout and Orientation Precision Estimate for Stereo Mapping Satellite
1 Introduction
2 Double-Vector Attitude Error Modeling
3 Error Weighted Orientation Accuracy Modeling
4 Simulation Results and Analysis
5 Conclusion
References
Study on Optical Swap Computational Imaging Method
1 Introduction
2 Theory
3 Simulation
4 Result and Discussion
5 Conclusion
References
CCD Detector´s Temperature Effect on Performance of the Space Camera
1 Introduction
2 Temperature Verification Test Scheme of CCD Detector
3 Temperature Verification Test Results of CCD Detector
4 Conclusion
Bibliography
The Thermal Stability Analysis of the LOS of the Remote Sensor Based on the Sensitivity Matrix
1 Introduction
2 The Principle of LOS Affecting the Positioning Accuracy
3 LOS Sensitivity Matrix
4 Thermal Elastic Analysis of a Camera LOS
4.1 Temperature Load
4.2 Thermal Analysis Results
5 Thermal Analysis of Camera LOS
6 Conclusion
References
Visible and Infrared Imaging Spectrometer Applied in Small Solar System Body Exploration
1 Introduction
2 Application of Hyperspectral Imaging in Deep Space Exploration
2.1 Imaging Spectrometer Using Filter
2.2 Dispersion Imaging Spectrometer
2.3 Interference Imaging Spectrometer
3 Spectral Detection of Small Solar System Bodies
3.1 Spectrum Detection of Asteroids
3.2 Main Belt Comets Detection
4 Design of Visible and Infrared Imaging Spectrometer for Small Solar System Bodies Detection
4.1 Main Specification Design of the Spectrometer
4.2 Key Techniques of Asteroid Detection Spectrometer
5 Conclusion
References
A Novel Optical System of On-Axis Three Mirror Based on Micron-Scale Detector
1 Introduction
2 The Development and Application of Small Pixel Size Detector
2.1 The Development of Small Pixel Size Detector
2.2 The Application of Small Pixel Size Detector
2.2.1 Space Remote Sensing
2.2.2 Star Sensor
3 The Influence of Detector Pixel Size on Imaging System
3.1 The Influence of Pixel Size on Performance of Optical and Detection System
3.1.1 Optical System
3.1.2 Detection System
3.2 The Difficulty of Designing an Optical System with Small Pixel Size Detector
3.2.1 MTF
3.2.2 F Number
3.2.3 Depth of Focus
4 A Novel Optical System of On-Axis Three Mirror
4.1 Key for Designing the Optical System
4.2 Performance Analysis
5 Conclusion
References
Design of a Snapshot Spectral Camera Based on Micromirror Arrays
1 Introduction
2 Principle and Design Considerations
3 Design Results and Analysis
4 Conclusion
References
Design, Manufacturing and Evaluation of Grazing Incidence X-Ray Optics
1 Introduction
2 Requirements on Optics of Pulsar Navigation
3 Design of the Optics
4 Focusing Performance Analysis
5 Manufacturing and Testing
6 Performance Evaluation
6.1 Target Source Characteristics
6.2 SDD Quantum Efficiency
6.3 Effective Area Evaluation
7 Conclusions
References
Fabrication of the Partition Multiplexing Convex Grating
1 Introduction
2 Diffraction Characteristics
3 Fabrication
4 Summary
References
Research on the Optimal Design of Heterodyne Technique Based on the InGaAs-PIN Photodiode
1 Introduction
2 Outline of Lidar System
2.1 Transmitter
2.2 Receiver
2.3 Detector
2.4 Lidar Equation
3 Heterodyne Detection
4 Signal-to-Noise Ratio
5 The Numerical Simulation
6 Conclusion
References
Research on the Thermal Stability of Integrated C/SiC Structure in Space Camera
1 Introduction
2 Structural Design and Optimization
3 Manufacture
4 Thermal Stability Test
5 Summary
References
The Application Study of Large Diameter, Thin-Wall Bearing on Long-Life Space-Borne Filter Wheel
1 Introduction
2 The Application Design of the Large Diameter, Thin-Wall Bearing
2.1 Design Description of the Filter Wheel Mechanism
2.2 Design Description of the Large Diameter, Thin-Wall Ball Bearing
3 The Accelerated Lie Test of the Large Diameter, Thin-Wall Bearing
4 Experimental Data Analysis and Discussion
5 Conclusion
References
A Step-by-Step Exact Measuring Angle Calibration Applicable for Multi-Detector Stitched Aerial Camera
1 Introduction
2 Method of Calibration
2.1 Image Interior Element
2.2 Principle of Accurate Angle Measurement
2.3 Calibration for Central Detector
2.4 Calibration for Edge Detector
3 Error Analysis for Step-by-Step Calibration
3.1 Error Caused by Optical Axes Displacement
3.2 Error Caused by Inequality of Focal Length
4 Experiment and Analysis
4.1 Experiment Design
4.2 Calibration of Central Detector
4.3 Calibration of Edge Detector
5 Conclusion
References
Absolute Distance Interferometric Techniques Used in On-Orbit Metrology of Large-Scale Opto-Mechanical Structure
1 Introduction
2 Theory of Absolute Metrology and Laser Heterodyne
3 Realistic Feasibility
4 Adaptive and Robustness Analysis
4.1 Adaptive Analysis
4.2 Error Analysis and Control
5 Summary
References
Development and On-Orbit Test for Sub-Arcsec Star Camera
1 Introduction
2 Analysis of Mission and General Design Scheme
2.1 Analysis of Mission
2.2 General Design Scheme
3 Some Important Steps
3.1 The Focal Plane Precision Assembly
3.2 Laboratory Calibration
3.3 The Vacuum Focal Plane Setting and Testing
3.4 Test on Orbit
4 Conclusion
References
Opto-Mechanical Assembly and Analysis of Imaging Spectrometer
1 Introduction
2 Principle
3 Instrument
3.1 Overview
3.2 Imaging System
3.3 Spectroscopic System and Detection System
4 Test of Imaging System
4.1 Effective Focal Length
4.2 MTF
4.3 Rear Working Distance
5 Test of Spectroscopic System
5.1 Optical Component Mounting
5.2 Pinhole Slit Test
6 Overall Spectrum Test
7 Conclusion
References
An Optimized Method of Target Tracking Based on Correlation Matching and Kalman Filter
1 Introduction
2 Base Algorithms
2.1 Correlation Matching
2.2 Kalman Filter
3 Algorithms Improving and Implementation
4 Result Analysis
References
Design and Verification of Micro-Vibration Isolator for a CMG
1 Introduction
2 Model Build and Analysis of CMG Isolation System
3 Verification of CMG Isolation System by Test
3.1 Micro-Vibration Test
3.2 Vibration Test
4 Conclusion
References
Development of a High-Frame-Rate CCD for Lightning Mapping Imager on FY-4
1 Introduction
2 CCD Architecture
2.1 Active Pixel Configuration and Structure of Image Section
2.2 Structure of Storage Section
2.3 Total Device Structure
3 CCD Characterization
4 Summary
References
Evaluation of GF-4 Satellite Multispectral Image Quality Enhancement Based on Super Resolution Enhancement Method
1 Introduction
2 Method
2.1 GF-4 Satellite and Data Characteristics
2.2 Technical Process
3 Experimental Results
4 Discussion and Conclusion
References
Micro-Vibration Environment Parameters Measurement and Analysis of a Novel Satellite in Orbit
1 Introduction
2 Design of System
2.1 Design of Overall Scheme
2.2 Key Technologies
2.2.1 Variable Range Technology
2.2.2 Low Noise and High Precision Acquisition Technology
2.2.3 Data Sampling Processing Technology
2.3 The Method for In-Orbit Data Analyzing
3 Measurement and Data Analysis
3.1 Validity Verification of Measurement System
3.2 Identification of Micro Vibration Parameters for the Whole Satellite In-Orbit
3.3 Identification of Micro-Vibration Parameters for Loads with High Precision in Orbit
4 Conclusion
References
Multiband Image Fusion Based on SRF Curve and Regional Variance Matching Degree
1 Introduction
2 Fusion Algorithm Based on His Transform and Wavelet Transform
2.1 Process of Algorithm
2.2 Fusion Criterion
2.2.1 Low Frequency Fusion Criterion
2.2.2 High Frequency Fusion Criterion
3 PAN Component Calculated Based on SRF Curve
4 Experimental Result
5 Conclusion
References
Remote Sensing Image Mixed Noise Denoising with Noise Parameter Estimation
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Algorithm
3.1 Parameters Estimator
3.2 Denoiser
4 Discussions
5 Experiments
5.1 Experimental Settings
5.2 Experiment Results
6 Conclusion
References
Research on Infrared Image Quality Improvement Based on Ground Compensation
1 Introduction
2 Traditional Methods
2.1 Based on Kalman Filtering Stripe Removal Algorithm
2.2 Based on the Moment Matching Fringe Removal Algorithm
3 Improved Algorithm
3.1 Improved Kalman Filtering Algorithm Research Process
3.2 Improved Moment Matching Algorithm Research Process
4 The Evaluation Criteria
5 Experiment
5.1 Specification of Technical Indicators
5.2 Test Results
5.3 Characteristics and Applicability Analysis of the Two Improved Methods
6 Key Technology and Technological Advancement
7 Summary
References
Research on the Influence of Different Factors of Micro-Vibration on the Radiation Quality of TDICCD Images
1 Introduction
2 Simulation Model
2.1 Model Establishment
2.2 Evaluation Indexes
3 Simulation Results
3.1 Simulation Input
3.2 Amplitude Impact Analysis
3.3 Frequency Impact Analysis
3.4 Number of Stage Impact Analysis
4 Rule Application
5 Conclusion
References
SVM-Based Cloud Detection Using Combined Texture Features
1 Introduction
2 SVM-Based Cloud Detection Using Combined Texture Features
2.1 Pre-processing
2.2 Texture Feature Extraction
2.3 Feature Discrimination
3 Experimental Results
3.1 Experimental Set-up
3.2 Results
4 Conclusion
References
An Oversampling Enhancement Method of the Terahertz Image
1 Introduction
2 The Proposed Method
3 Experiment and Analysis
4 Conclusion
References
Band Selection for Hyperspectral Data Based on Clustering and Genetic Algorithm
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
2.1 Supervised Band Selection
2.2 Unsupervised Band Selection
3 Band Selection Based on Clustering and Genetic Algorithm
3.1 Framework
3.2 Distance of Bands
3.3 Evaluation of Clustering Results
3.4 Individual Representation
4 Experiments and Discussions
4.1 Hyperspectral Dataset of Broadleaf
4.2 Salinas Hyperspectral Dataset
5 Conclusion
References
Tree Species Classification of Airborne Hyperspectral Image in Cloud Shadow Area
1 Introduction
2 Study Area and Data Collection
2.1 Overview of the Study Area
2.2 Remote Sensing Data and Filed Data Obtaining
2.3 Hyperspectral Data Processing and Tree Species Classification
2.3.1 Geometric Correction and Atmospheric Correction
2.3.2 Calculation of Narrow-Band Vegetation Index and Texture Analysis
2.4 Supervised Classification
2.4.1 Determination of the Classification System
2.4.2 Classifier
2.4.3 Selection of Training Samples
2.4.4 Image Classification
3 Classification Results and Analysis
3.1 Image Classification Results
3.2 Accuracy Verification
3.3 Classification Results and Analysis
4 Discussion
5 Conclusion and Prospects
References
Optical Design of a Simple and High Performance Reflecting Lens for Telescope
1 Introduction
2 Optical Design
2.1 Requirements and Concept for Design of the Optical Telescope
2.2 Results
3 Conclusion
References
Index
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H. Paul Urbach Qifeng Yu Editors

5th International Symposium of Space Optical Instruments and Applications Beijing, China, September 5–7, 2018

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5th International Symposium of Space Optical Instruments and Applications Beijing, China, September 5–7, 2018

Editors H. Paul Urbach Optics Research Group Delft University of Technology Delft, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

Qifeng Yu National University of Defense Technology Kaifu, Changsha, Hunan, China

ISSN 0930-8989 ISSN 1867-4941 (electronic) Springer Proceedings in Physics ISBN 978-3-030-27299-9 ISBN 978-3-030-27300-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27300-2 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

Preface

The 5th International Symposium on Space Optical Instruments and Applications was successfully held in Beijing, China, on September 5–7, 2018. It is organized by the Sino-Holland Space Optical Instruments Joint Laboratory, supported by TU Delft. Like previous years, the joint lab continuously put efforts into encouraging international communication and cooperation in space optics and promoting innovation, research, and engineering development. The symposium focused on key innovations of space-based optical instruments and applications and the newest developments in theory, technology, and applications in optics in both China and Europe. It is a very good platform for exchanges on the space optics field and information on current and planned optical missions. There were about 230 attendees to the conference. The speakers were mainly from Chinese, Dutch, and other European universities, space institutes, and companies. The main topics included: • • • • •

Space optical remote sensing system design; Advanced optical system design and manufacturing; Remote sensor calibration and measurement; Remote sensing data processing and information retrieval; Remote sensing data applications.

Delft, The Netherlands Changsha, China

H. Paul Urbach Qifeng Yu

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Analysis on NETD of Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometer . . . . . . . Jiacheng Zhu, Zhicheng Zhao, Shu Shen, Shujian Ding, and Weimin Shen

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Demand Analysis of Optical Remote Sensing Satellites Under the Belt and Road Initiative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lingli Sun, Qiuyan Zhao, and Zhiqiang Shen

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Design of an All-Spherical Catadioptric Telescope with Long Focal Length for High-Resolution CubeSat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Li Liu, Li Chen, Zhenkun Wang, and Weimin Shen

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Design of Lobster-Eye Focusing System for Dark Matter Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yun Su, Xianmin Wu, Long Dong, Hong Lv, Zhiyuan Li, and Meng Su

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Design of Satellite Payload Management Integrated Electronic System Based on Plug and Play Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Guofu Yong, Lanzhi Gao, and Wenxiu Mu

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Full Path Analysis of Impact on MTF of Remote Sensing Camera by Jitter Spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Liu Yong, Lu Yuting, and Gao Lingyan

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Influence of Micro-Vibration Caused by Momentum Wheel on the Imaging Quality of Space Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Qiangqiang Fu, Yong Liu, Nan Zhou, and Jinqiang Wang

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Integrated Design of Platform and Payload for Remote Sensing Satellite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jiaguo Zu, Teng Wang, and Yanhua Wu

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Optical System Design of Space Remote Sensor Based on the Ritchey-Chretien Cassegrain System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yang-Guang Xing, Lin Li, and Jilong Peng

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Suppression of the Self-Radiation Stray Light of Long-Wave Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Shu Shen, Jiacheng Zhu, Xujie Huang, and Weimin Shen Star Camera Layout and Orientation Precision Estimate for Stereo Mapping Satellite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 W. Z. Wang, Q. L. Wang, J. J. Di, Y. B. Yu, Y. H. Zong, and W. J. Gao Study on Optical Swap Computational Imaging Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Xiaopeng Shao, Yazhe Wei, Fei Liu, Shengzhi Huang, Lixian Liu, and Weixin Feng CCD Detector’s Temperature Effect on Performance of the Space Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Xiaohong Zhang, Xiaoyong Wang, Zhixue Han, Chunmei Li, Pan Lu, and Jun Zheng The Thermal Stability Analysis of the LOS of the Remote Sensor Based on the Sensitivity Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Yuting Lu, Yong Liu, and Zong Chen Visible and Infrared Imaging Spectrometer Applied in Small Solar System Body Exploration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Bicen Li, Baohua Wang, Tong Wang, Hao Zhang, and Weigang Wang A Novel Optical System of On-Axis Three Mirror Based on Micron-Scale Detector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Jianing Hu, Xiaoyong Wang, and Ningjuan Ruan Design of a Snapshot Spectral Camera Based on Micromirror Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Shujian Ding, Xujie Huang, Jiacheng Zhu, and Weimin Shen Design, Manufacturing and Evaluation of Grazing Incidence X-Ray Optics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Fuchang Zuo, Loulou Deng, Haili Zhang, Zhengxin Lv, and Yueming Li Fabrication of the Partition Multiplexing Convex Grating . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Quan Liu, Peiliang Guo, and Jianhong Wu

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Research on the Optimal Design of Heterodyne Technique Based on the InGaAs-PIN Photodiode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Zongfeng Ma, Ming Zhang, and Panfeng Wu Research on the Thermal Stability of Integrated C/SiC Structure in Space Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Li Sun, Hua Nian, Zhiqing Song, and Yusheng Ding The Application Study of Large Diameter, Thin-Wall Bearing on Long-Life Space-Borne Filter Wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Yue Wang, Heng Zhang, Shiqi Li, Zhenghang Xiao, and Huili Jia A Step-by-Step Exact Measuring Angle Calibration Applicable for Multi-Detector Stitched Aerial Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 C. Zhong, Z. M. Shang, G. J. Wen, X. Liu, H. M. Wang, and C. Li Absolute Distance Interferometric Techniques Used in On-Orbit Metrology of Large-Scale Opto-Mechanical Structure . . . . . 245 Yun Wang and Xiaoyong Wang Development and On-Orbit Test for Sub-Arcsec Star Camera . . . . . . . . 253 Yun-hua Zong, Jing-jing Di, Yan Wang, Yu-ning Ren, Wei-zhi Wang, Yujie Tang, and Jian Li Opto-Mechanical Assembly and Analysis of Imaging Spectrometer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Quan Zhang, Xin Li, and Xiaobing Zheng An Optimized Method of Target Tracking Based on Correlation Matching and Kalman Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 Mingdao Xu and Liang Zhao Design and Verification of Micro-Vibration Isolator for a CMG . . . . . . . 281 Yongqiang Hu, Zhenwei Feng, Jiang Qin, Fang Yang, and Jian Zhao Development of a High-Frame-Rate CCD for Lightning Mapping Imager on FY-4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 T. D. Wang, C. L. Liu, and N. M. Liao Evaluation of GF-4 Satellite Multispectral Image Quality Enhancement Based on Super Resolution Enhancement Method . . . . . . 295 Wei Wu, Wei Liu, and Dianzhong Wang Micro-Vibration Environment Parameters Measurement and Analysis of a Novel Satellite in Orbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 Pan-feng Wu, Zhen-long Xu, Xiao-yu Wang, Jiang Yang, and De-bo Wang

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Multiband Image Fusion Based on SRF Curve and Regional Variance Matching Degree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 Yuan-yuan Wang, Zhi-yong Wei, Jun Zheng, and Sheng-quan Yu Remote Sensing Image Mixed Noise Denoising with Noise Parameter Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 Mutian Wang, Sijie Zhao, Xun Cao, Tao Yue, and Xuemei Hu Research on Infrared Image Quality Improvement Based on Ground Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 Xiaofei Qu, Xiangyang Lin, and Mu Li Research on the Influence of Different Factors of Micro-Vibration on the Radiation Quality of TDICCD Images . . . . . . 349 Jingyu Liu, Yufu Cui, Hongyan He, and Huan Yin SVM-Based Cloud Detection Using Combined Texture Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363 Xiaoliang Sun, Qifeng Yu, and Zhang Li An Oversampling Enhancement Method of the Terahertz Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373 Zhi Zhang, Xu-Ling Lin, Jian-Bing Zhang, and Hong-Yan He Band Selection for Hyperspectral Data Based on Clustering and Genetic Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379 Gaojin Wen, Limin Wu, Yun Xu, Zhiming Shang, Can Zhong, and Hongming Wang Tree Species Classification of Airborne Hyperspectral Image in Cloud Shadow Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389 Junling Li, Yong Pang, Zengyuan Li, and Wen Jia Optical Design of a Simple and High Performance Reflecting Lens for Telescope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399 Jingjing Ge, Yu Su, Yingbo Li, Chao Wang, Jianchao Jiao, and Xiao Han Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405

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Hosted By:

Organized By:

Jointly Organized By: National Center for International Research on Space Optical Instrument Beijing International Cooperation Base of Science and Technology on Space Optical Instrument Space Remote Sensing Committee, Chinese Society of Astronautics Space Optics Committee, The Chinese Optical Society Remote Sensing Committee, China Association of Remote Sensing Application Beijing Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Remote Sensing Technology Beijing Engineering Technology Research Center of Aerial Intelligent Remote Sensing Equipments Optical Ultraprecise Processing Technology Innovation Center for Science and Technology Industry of National Defense

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Analysis on NETD of Thermal Infrared Imaging Spectrometer Jiacheng Zhu1,2(*), Zhicheng Zhao1,2, Shu Shen1,2, Shujian Ding1,2, and Weimin Shen1,2 1

Key Lab of Modern Optical Technologies of Education Ministry of China Soochow University, Suzhou, China 2 Key Lab of Advanced Optical Manufacturing Technologies of Jiangsu Province Soochow University, Suzhou, China [email protected]

Abstract. In order to suppress the noise of thermal infrared imaging spectrometer and improve its detection sensitivity, relationship between noise equivalent temperature difference (NETD) and various noise factors was analyzed. Noise of the thermal infrared imaging spectrometer mainly includes the stray light noise defined as nonimaging light scattered by opto-mechanical components’ surfaces and generated by nonworking orders of the grating, the background radiation noise from the optomechanical components, and the detector noise. According to the physical mechanism of NETD, the expression containing noise factors of NETD was deduced, and the noise analysis model of the thermal infrared imaging spectrometer was established. An Offner-type imaging spectrometer was taken as an example, whose spectral range is from 8 to 12.5 μm, F number is 2.7, number or spatial channels is 1024, number of spectral channels is 45. And a HgCdTe detector with a D of 4  1010 cm Hz1/2 W1 is used. Relationship between the NETD of this Offner-type spectrometer and its main influencing factors, including cryogenic temperature and optical properties of inwall surfaces of the spectrometer’s mechanical elements, was analyzed. When these parameters are in different value, the proportion of each noise and the main factor affecting NETD are different. Targeted noise suppression methods were proposed for different noise. Usually, background radiation noise is suppressed by cooling the opto-mechanical components and brighten the inwall surfaces. But stray light noise would increase when the inwall surfaces is brightened. Change of NETD with the cryogenic temperature was compared between the inwall surfaces blackened or brightened. When the cryogenic temperature was 90 K, NETD was 0.88 K in both blackened and brightened inwall surfaces case. When the cryogenic temperature was 70 K, NETD was 0.1 K in blackened inwall surfaces case, and 0.52 K in brightened inwall surfaces case. The conclusions have guiding significance for the determination of cryogenic temperature and the inwall surfaces’ optical properties of thermal infrared imaging spectrometer. Keywords: NETD · Thermal infrared imaging spectrometer · Noise · Background radiation

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1 Introduction Thermal infrared imaging spectrometer is used to obtain the spatial and spectral information of the thermal radiation of the object itself, and it has the capability of all-weather monitoring, which has obvious advantages in the detection and identification of ground objects and events. It is widely used in military field, chemical gas detection, mineral exploration, forest fire monitor, and so on [1–3]. Compared with visible near-infrared or short-wave infrared imaging spectrometer, there are several difficulties in the development of thermal infrared imaging spectrometer. At normal temperature, the thermal radiation spectrum of the instrument itself is also in the thermal infrared band, which greatly interferes with the signal detection and even drowns the radiation signal. In addition, high-performance thermal infrared detectors are difficult to develop and few kinds are available. Especially, long-wave infrared detector has low detection rate of weak target signal. Therefore, reducing background radiation is the main problem to be solved to improve the performance of thermal infrared imaging spectrometer. Noise equivalent temperature difference (NETD) is commonly used to evaluate the sensitivity of thermal infrared imaging spectrometer. It is an important index of thermal infrared imaging spectrometer to describe the system’s ability to distinguish the temperature change of the target or the temperature difference between the target and the background. Lower the NETD is, higher the sensitivity of spectrometer. In order to improve the detection sensitivity of thermal infrared imaging spectrometer, the suppression of background noise is especially important. One of the more common methods is to use the whole machine refrigeration or the cooling stop to suppress the background noise, and such method was used in several missions. In 1994, the airborne thermal infrared imaging spectrometer AHI [4] was developed by university of Hawaii for mineral exploration. It works at 7.5–11.5 μm, with a spectral resolution of 125 nm. The F number of the spectrometer is reduced from 4 to 1.7 by using a background suppressor. The background suppressor works in a vacuum dewar, with liquid nitrogen refrigerating to 90 K, and the NETD of the spectrometer is 0.1 k. In 2006, JPL developed a quantum well thermal infrared imaging spectrometer QWEST [5] for earth science detection and verifying their quantum well infrared detector technology. The spectral range of the QWEST is 8–12.5 μm, with a spectral resolution of 17.6 nm and its F number is 1.6. The NETD of the spectrometer is 0.13 K when the whole optical path is cooled below 40 K. Similarly, the thermal infrared imaging spectrometers MAKO [6] and MAGI [7] developed by American aerospace corporation use the cooled Dyson spectrometer to improve detection sensitivity. Obviously, the refrigeration method can improve the sensitivity of thermal infrared imaging spectrometer. Therefore, it is particularly important to analyze the relationship between NETD and cryogenic temperature or other influencing factors during the design stage of a thermal infrared imaging spectrometer.

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2 Physical Mechanism of NETD NETD is defined as the temperature difference between the target and the background when the signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the instrument is 1. The definitional equation of NETD is: NETD ¼

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where λ is the radiation wavelength, ε(λ) is the target emissivity, T is the target temperature, c1 ¼ 3.7418  1016 W m2 is the first radiation constant, c2 ¼ 1.4388  102 m K is the second radiation constant. Self-radiation of most natural target surfaces can be regarded as Lambertian radiation surfaces, the relationship between radiance L(λ, T) and spectral radiation exitance M(λ, T ) is as follows: Lðλ, T Þ ¼

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Total noise voltage contains the noise voltage of detector itself Vn-detector, the noise voltage of background radiation Vn-background, and the noise voltage caused by stray light generated during the light transmission in the spectrometer, Vn-stray. Background radiation and stray light transmitting to the detector are both invalid, and the noise they form on the detector acts in the same way, so the two kinds of noise voltage can be collectively referred to as the invalid radiation noise voltage, Vn-invalid. Define Φinvalid as the invalid radiant flux received by the detector. Invalid illuminance on the detector is Einvalid, which is the sum of background radiation illuminance Ebackground and stray light illuminance Estray. The invalid radiation noise voltage output by the detector can be expressed as: V n‐invalid ¼ Φinvalid 

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When SNR ¼ 1, ΔT equals to the NETD of the thermal infrared imaging spectrometer. Expression of the NETD is as follows: qffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi  2 pffiffiffiffiffi Δf þ E invalid Ad  D ðλÞ pffiffiffiffiffi NETD ¼ εðλÞτðλÞM ðλ, T Þ  hc=k  Ad  D ðλÞΔλ 4λF 2 T 2

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Obviously, if thermal infrared imaging spectrometer has a fast F number, high transmittance, and strong ability for suppression of invalid radiation, the system can achieve high sensitivity with low NETD.

3 Modeling and Analysis Equation (15) contains various noise factors, including stray light noise, background radiation noise, and the detector noise. On the detector photosensitive surface, stray light illuminance Estray and background radiation illuminance Ebackground have relationship with the reflectivity of inwall surfaces of the spectrometer’s mechanical elements.

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Moreover, Ebackground is closely related to the cryogenic temperature. An Offner-type thermal infrared imaging spectrometer designed for working in the geostationary orbit is analyzed. Its spectral range is from 8 to 12.5 μm, F number is 2.7, number or spatial channels is 1024, number of spectral channels is 45. A HgCdTe detector with a pixel size of 24  32 μm and a D of 4  1010 cm Hz1/2 W1 is used, and its Δf is 50 Hz. Spectrometer’s noise is analyzed solely, for invalid radiation from the foreoptics is obstructed by the slit. The schematic of the Offner-type imaging spectrometer’s optomechanical system is given in Fig. 2. Two models with different inwall surfaces reflectivity are established for noise analysis. One has blackened inwall surfaces and another has brightened. Detailed optical properties of the spectrometer’s optical and mechanical elements of two models are shown in Table 1. Without consideration of noise, signal radiation illuminance Esignal on the detector can be expressed as:

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Table 2 Ebackground of two models at 10.25 μm (unit of illuminance: W/mm2) Cryogenic Temperature (K) 180 160 140 120 100 80 70 60

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When the temperature of target is 300 K, Esignal calculated by (16) is 1.60  107 W/mm2 at the radiation wavelength of 10.25 μm. With the help of nonsequential ray tracing software LightTools, we can obtain Estray and Ebackground of the two models. Estray is independent of the cryogenic temperature, while Ebackground is temperature dependent. By the simulation, Estray of Model 1 is 2.20  1011 and 1.10  109 W/mm2 of Model 2. Ebackground of two models at different cryogenic temperature is given in Table 2. Obviously, background radiation can be suppressed by lowering the cryogenic temperature, and a cryogenic temperature of at least 140 K is required for the signal not to be drowned by background radiation noise. Furthermore, Ebackground of Model 2 is less than Model 1, but Estray of Model 2 is 20 times larger than Model 1. Once the inwall surfaces of mechanical elements are polished brightly, stray light will reflect back and forth for multiple times inside the spectrometer, and more stray light will travel to the detector. Therefore, blackening the mechanical elements is an effective way to reduce stray light noise. With the spectrometer’s parameters and Einvalid analyzed above, we obtained the relationship between NETD and cryogenic temperature using (15). The change of NETD with cryogenic temperature is shown in Fig. 3. For Model 1, when the cryogenic temperature is above 70 K, Ebackground is several orders of magnitude larger than Estray, and NETD drops sharply as temperature drops. When the cryogenic temperature is below 70 K, stray light noise accounts for a larger proportion than background radiation noise, and NETD goes stable as temperature drops. For Model 2, such critical temperature is 90 K. When the cryogenic temperature is 90 K, NETD is 0.88 K both in Model 1 and Model 2. NETD of Model 2 is lower as the cryogenic temperature above 90 K for less background radiation noise. NETD of Model 1 is lower as the cryogenic temperature below 90 K for less stray light noise. When the cryogenic temperature is 70 K, the NETD is 0.1 K in Model 1 and 0.52 K in Model 2.

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deduced, and two noise analysis models of an Offner-type thermal infrared imaging spectrometer were established. By the simulation, variation trend of NETD with cryogenic temperature was got with inwall surfaces blackened or brightened. NETD drops as temperature drops, and NETD goes stable when cryogenic temperature is low enough. At different cryogenic temperature, different noise factors dominate. Background radiation noise is major noise when cryogenic temperature is above 90 K, while stray light noise and detector noise are major noise when cryogenic temperature is below 70 K. When spectrometer’s inwall surfaces is brightened, its NETD is lower at a high cryogenic temperature than the blackened one, but higher at a low cryogenic temperature. The conclusions have guiding significance for the determination of the cryogenic temperature and the inwall surfaces’ optical properties of the thermal infrared imaging spectrometer. In future work, NETD of thermal infrared imaging spectrometer with mechanical elements partly blackened and partly brightened will be studied. The authors believe that the NETD may reach a better consequence with an appropriate selection of brightened surfaces. Acknowledgments This work was supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFB05500501-02).

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Demand Analysis of Optical Remote Sensing Satellites Under the Belt and Road Initiative Lingli Sun1(*), Qiuyan Zhao2, and Zhiqiang Shen1 1

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Abstract. The Belt and Road Initiative is an open regional cooperation initiative announced by China’s new leader President Xi Jinping. In this paper, the basic situation of countries along the Belt and Road Initiative was introduced first and pointed out the problems that the relevant governments or organizations or companies to participate in the construction need to face. Secondly, the paper comprehensively analyzed the various remote sensing satellite resources currently available along the Belt and Road Initiative countries, including satellites developed independent by the relevant countries or by commercial companies. Thirdly, the application needs of space information of the countries along the relevant areas were disused, such as emergency disaster reduction, mineral resources survey, mapping, weather forecast, ocean observation, etc. Finally, this paper put forward suggestions on the construction direction of the space information service system, which provides references for the construction direction and application of space resources. Keywords: The Belt and Road Initiative · Demand · Optical remote sensing

1 Introduction In September and October 2013, President Xi Jinping proposed a major initiative to jointly build the Silk Road Economic Belt and twenty-first century Maritime Silk Road (hereinafter referred to as the Belt and Road Initiative). In March 2015, the State Council of China issued the Vision and Action of the Belt and Road Initiative as the main initiative of policy communication, facility linkage, trade smoothness, capital finance, and people’s hearts and clearly defined improving airplane (satellite) information as an important aspect of facility connectivity. In May 2017, the Chinese government organized the first One Belt, One Road international cooperation summit forum, which attracted more than 100 countries or international organizations to participate in the seminar. The Belt and Road Initiative has received great attention from the international community and positive responses from relevant countries. It has brought significant opportunities for China Aerospace to go global and provide high-quality aerospace products and services to more international users. It refers to countries with a vast territory and diverse natural environment. Most of them are economically underdeveloped and often suffer from disasters. All kinds of © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 H. P. Urbach, Q. Yu (eds.), 5th International Symposium of Space Optical Instruments and Applications, Springer Proceedings in Physics 232, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27300-2_2

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natural disasters and the secondary disasters caused by them occur from time to time, which seriously restrict the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative. Space infrastructure with advantage of high location, Global coverage, etc., is an important means of facilities connected. As we all know, in some scenarios, it’s the only means available. The information service provided by space infrastructure plays an important role for policy communication, trade flow. In this paper, the basic situation of countries along the Belt and Road Initiative was introduced first. The problems that the relevant governments or organizations or companies to participate in the construction need to face were pointed out. Secondly, the paper comprehensively analyzed the various remote sensing satellite resources currently available along the Belt and Road Initiative countries, including satellites developed independent by the relevant countries or launched by commercial companies. Thirdly, the application needs of space information of the countries along the relevant areas were disused, such as emergency disaster reduction, mineral resources survey, mapping, weather forecast, ocean observation, and so on. Finally, this paper put forward suggestions on the construction direction of the space information service system, which provides references for the construction direction and application of space resources.

2 Basic Situation Along the Belt and Road The Belt and Road Initiative is an open regional cooperation initiative. At present, the Silk Road Economic Belt covers East Asia, central Asia, west Asia, central and east Europe, and other regions through land transportation, while the twenty-first century Maritime Silk Road connects east Asia, southeast Asia, south Asia, and west Asia by sea and radiates to parts of southern Europe. The basic meaning of the Belt and Road Initiative is a regional cooperation initiative covering 65 countries. This initiative connects the two economic circles of Asia-Pacific and Europe and is the largest and most promising economic cooperation belt of the world. There are more than 4.3 billion people in the countries along the route, accounting for more than 60% of total population of the world. The GDP of these countries accounts for nearly one-third of the world. The Belt and Road Initiative has been proposed for more than 4 years, and more than 100 countries and international organizations around the world have actively supported and participated in the Belt and Road Initiative construction. As of September 2017, China has signed One Belt and One Road cooperation documents with 74 countries and international organizations and signed various investment and trade agreements with 58 countries. In the first three quarters of 2017, 2893 new enterprises were established in China. However, the area along the Belt and Road area is wide, the terrain and landscape environment are complex, and the climate is changeable. Among them, Southeast Asia and South Asia are among the most frequent and most severely damaged areas in the world. The terrain conditions in South Asia are more complicated. Take Pakistan as an example. It is located in the Himalayan earthquake zone. It has frequent earthquakes and is affected by the south Asian tropical monsoon. The precipitation is uneven and prone to drought or flood disasters. There are many geological diseases along the Belt and Road, and the distribution is wide and the damage is serious. For example, the

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China-Brazil Highway is a veritable road geological disaster museum, and many disasters seriously restrict and affect the construction and normal operation of the road. There are many projects along One Belt and One Road Initiative, most of which are located in remote locations, with poor infrastructure and undeveloped communications. It is difficult to conduct on-site safety supervision in construction areas. For the Belt and Road Initiative related governments, organizations, and companies that want to participate in the related project, effective measures are needed to ensure the safety of their activities under the initiative. After that, create maximum benefits can be considered. Space resources have the characteristics of high position and global coverage. They have natural advantages in emergency disaster reduction, mineral resources survey, survey mapping, and other applications. In June 2018, China signed cooperation with the United Nations on the development of the Belt and Road space information corridor. The Declaration brings opportunities for space-based remote sensing applications. This paper combs the application requirements of these space resources in detail, which can provide services and solutions for relevant governments, organizations, and enterprises and also provide reference for the construction and application of space resources.

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Along the Belt and Road, countries with their own space-based remote sensing resources mainly include Russia and India, and the rest of the countries have only a few remote sensing satellites, such as Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, and so on. 3.1.1 Russia The history of Russian remote sensing satellites has a long history. In the early days, military applications such as investigation and early warning were the mainstays. Later, they gradually developed into military and civilian use. In June 2006, the Resurs-DK satellite was launched, and the panchromatic resolution was better than 1 m. The system was also commercialized while satisfying the application of civilian remote sensing and sold high-resolution remote sensing satellite images to the world. The Canopus-B remote sensing satellite launched in June 2012 carries three payloads: the Panchromatic Imaging System (PSS), the Multispectral Imaging System (MSS), and the Multispectral Scanner (MSU-200). The spatial resolutions of the three payloads are resolved to 2.5, 12, and 25 m. It can be used for land and ocean surface observations, ice imaging observations, natural and man-made disasters monitoring, mapping, forest fires, and atmospheric environmental pollutants monitoring. 3.1.2 India The capabilities of Indian mapping and imaging satellites continue to increase. CartoSat-2, 2A, and 2B satellites are mainly used for high-resolution imaging observations, as well as detailed mapping of key areas based on global infrastructure mapping. CartoSat-2B was launched in July 2010. Its resolution is up to

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0.8 m, and its revisiting period is 4–5 days. India is developing the CartoSat-3 satellite, which is mainly used for military high-resolution reconnaissance and mapping. The satellite has a mass of about 600 kg. Its panchromatic resolution is 0.3 m, and breadth is about 10 km. 3.1.3 Others The Saudi Arabian satellite is a series of small Earth observation satellites developed by the Saudi Arabian Space Research Institute. The satellites currently have six satellites of the SaudiSat-1, 2, 3, and 4. Among them, only SaudiSat-2, 3, and 4 have imaging capability. But SaudiSat-2 has been retired. Pakistan does not have a national remote sensing satellite. It has previously cooperated with the United Kingdom to develop the Badr-B satellite. The British side is responsible for providing the satellite platform. The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) has developed the main payload. The Palestinian side is responsible for the satellite assembly. On December 10, 2001, it was launched by Russian Zenit-2 rocket from the Baikonur launch site. Now it has been retired. The Space Technology Institute Cube-1 (iCUBE-1) satellite launched in 2013 is a 1 U cube satellite, carrying a low-resolution camera for technical verification and has also been retired. There are two remote sensing satellites in orbit in Indonesia. LAPAN-TUBSAT is a technical test satellite developed in cooperation with Germany and Japan. It was launched in 2007. Then, the National Aerospace Research Institute of Indonesia developed the LAPAN-ORARI satellite based on the satellite technology and launched it in 2015. The remote sensing satellite in Thailand is mainly the THEOS satellite. The satellite was developed by France’s Astrium company. It uses a sun-synchronous orbit with a height of 822 km, panchromatic resolution of 2 m, and a multispectral resolution of 15 m. Kazakhstan’s remote sensing satellite KazEOSat-1 is custom-made by France’s Airbus Defense and Space, with a minimum resolution of 1 m, a breadth of 20 km. It can cover 220,000km2 in 24 h. It was launched in 2014 with 7 years’ service life. KazEOSat-2 satellite was also launched in 2014, built on the SSTL-150 platform of Surrey Satellite Technology Co., Ltd., with a width of 77 km. There are also other resources summarized as shown in the following Table 1: 3.2

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On the one hand, the world’s aerospace developed countries publish low-resolution data for free and sell high-resolution, high time-sensitive remote sensing data and images to users around the world through commercial channels. It mainly relies on the technical advantages of aerospace in the field of remote sensing satellites. While satisfying the national civil application, it is committed to exerting the redundant observation capability of on-orbit satellites and promoting its commercial application. Most of these companies are open to countries along the Belt and Road. These are also a remote sensing resource available.

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The high-resolution imaging satellites, such as WorldView-1, GeoEye-1, have an optical imaging resolution of 0.45 m. Satellite terrestrial divisions such as IKONOS, QuickBird, and OrbView-3 are better than 1 m and have large-angle side-swing observation capabilities. The optical imaging resolution of the WorldView-2 satellite and the GeoEye-2 satellite has reached a level of 0.3–0.25 m. The US government has allowed satellite images of 0.25 m resolution for commercial sale. 3.2.2 French Remote Sensing Satellite System The French SPOT series satellites have been very successful in the global commercial remote sensing market. Its data spatial resolution is dominated by 2.5 m. The Pleiades optical remote sensing satellite has a maximum precision of 0.5 m and is operating in the same PPP mode as the SPOT satellite series. The satellite can achieve a base-to-horizon imaging ratio of 0.1–1.0. The positioning accuracy is better than 20 m without external reference, and the positioning accuracy can be better than 0.5 m after correction of the ground control point with 80 km interval. 3.2.3 Italian Radar Satellite System The COSMO-Skymed satellite system consists of four satellites. The repeatability of the ground trajectory of each satellite in the constellation is less than 1 km. The revisiting period of the 4-star network is only a few hours. It can be used for quick return visit to the area of interest. The beam mode has a resolution of 0.7 m and a width of 10 km. 3.2.4 German Remote Sensing Satellite In the RapidEye constellation, five satellites are evenly distributed in a sun-synchronous orbit of 630 km. Each satellite carries six cameras with a resolution of 6.5 m. The system can access any place of the Earth in 1 day and also can cover the entire agricultural area of North America and Europe within 5 days. The five satellites will download their image data to an X-band antenna in northern Norway, which is then transmitted to the German headquarters for processing and analysis, and finally the product is delivered to the user.

4 Satellite Remote Sensing Application Needs Analysis Space-based resources are characterized by high location and global coverage. They are an important means of connecting facilities. They are the only means of relying on certain scenarios. The information services provided by them have an important role in policy communication, smooth trade, and common people. From the perspective of space-based remote sensing applications, the needs of various applications are analyzed. 4.1

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There are many geological disasters along the Belt and Road countries. For example, the ASEAN region is a hotspot with frequent disasters around the world. The rivers are rich in the region and the ecological environment is complex. It is urgent to monitor and master the vegetation cover, water pollution, forest exploitation, and biodiversity.

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Research on the quality of ecological environment and its evolution is needed. The regional ecological models should be established and improved. The satellite obtains scientific data on resources, environment, ecology, and remote sensing in the region and provides basic data support for research on global climate change, ecological protection, and industrial policy formulation. Users of this type of demand are mainly government organizations of relevant countries, and they should try to avoid disasters causing significant personnel and economic losses to their own countries. Satellite remote sensing is required to provide monitoring, forecasting, and early warning for disasters, such as floods, marine disasters (including tsunamis, sea ice, red tides, etc.), and drought. Satellite remote sensing can also be used for disaster detection and dynamic change monitoring. The disaster risk maps of different scales in high-risk areas and key areas of disasters should be made through Satellite remote sensing date. The 1:10,000–1:250,000 earthquake disaster basic information maps should be got and updated. Various earthquake precursor information spatial distribution and time series should be detected by satellites. Products such as earthquake disaster rapid monitoring, disaster assessment products are needed. 4.2

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In the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative, in order to support and attract relevant enterprises to participate in mineral resources exploration and development, the primary and basic work is to provide spatial information services for accurate mineral resources. Based on this, countries along the Belt and Road urgently need to use space technology to establish a comprehensive and accurate spatial information support system for mineral resources. Then they can conduct global mineral resources survey and evaluation, while focus on oil gas and mineral resources such as uranium, iron, copper, aluminum, nickel, lead, and zinc. A global remote sensing map platform can be built to carry out development strategy research for shortage minerals. For mineral enterprises, it is necessary to conduct in-depth exploration of mineral resources for specific mineral resources prospects and target areas. Provide decisionmaking data for the construction of large-scale mineral resources’ development bases, and reduce enterprise risks and production costs. The non-ferrous metals industry should use the Belt and Road Initiative to accelerate going out, aiming at the low-grade mine development, expanding the application of non-ferrous metals and other technical needs, breaking the bottleneck of resources and environment constraints, and strengthening capacity cooperation and resource cooperation with relevant countries. In order to achieve the above objectives, the remote sensing products that need to be produced by the resource survey include 1:250,000 mine geological environment background, regional mineral resources development and utilization status, and implementation of mineral resources planning. Remote sensing data better than 2.5 m and better than 1 m were used to carry out multi-objective remote sensing survey and monitoring of mineral resources development and utilization status and mine environment in key metal organic belts or mining areas with scales of 1:50,000 and 1:10,000.

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Mapping geographic information can objectively represent the spatial location, morphological characteristics, and correlations of important natural geographical elements and artificial facilities on the surface of the Earth. It can accurately describe the spatial location and spatial extent corresponding to human factors such as place names and realms. It is an important basic information platform for the national economy and social information. At present, countries along the Belt and Road have not yet formed a large-scale production system for satellite mapping. There are widespread problems in regional data such as aging data, too small scale, lack of engineering geological content, and incomplete elements. Existing mapping techniques and capabilities cannot fully meet the needs of all parties in the face of mapping tasks. New mapping methods are urgently needed to obtain new basic maps. For railway project and infrastructure construction enterprises, detailed topographic map data are an indispensable basis to carry out overseas railway survey and design, infrastructure construction, and so on. However, data missing and collecting difficulties often happened in overseas railway projects. Or, the topographic map data are outdated and useless. These situations make the railway line selection difficult, which poses huge obstacles to the implementation of the project. With the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative, it is bound to drive the rapid development of national economy and society along the line. The changes in geographical factors caused by the construction of supporting infrastructure such as transportation and urban construction will be very fast. Countries and enterprises will have a need for 1:10,000 or 1:5000 topographic map update. In addition, there are also urgent needs for high-resolution earth observation data, such as unmanned area mapping, coastal zone, and island mapping. 4.4

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There are many unmanned areas along the Belt and Road, such as the mountainous areas, plateaus, deserts, and oceans. There are many blind spots in meteorological observations, which have become shortcomings for weather forecasting. The countries along the Belt and Road urgently need meteorological satellites to conduct all-weather and three-dimensional observations of the atmosphere, clearly capture the changes in the wind and cloud, and effectively compensate for the shortcomings of the ground observation. At the same time, the relevant meteorological disaster forecast information is of great significance for the engineering enterprises to arrange construction progress and personnel safety. The natural environment of the countries along the Belt and Road varies greatly, and there are many major climate types, such as tropical monsoon climate (Indochina, most parts of South Asia), tropical rainforest climate (Malay Peninsula, Indonesia, southern Philippines), maritime tropical monsoon climate (Northern Philippines), temperate desert steppe continental climate (Eurasia hinterland), temperate maritime climate (western Central and Eastern Europe), and temperate continental climate (eastern

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Central and Eastern Europe). At the same time, the economic development mode of the Belt and Road region is relatively extensive. The energy consumption per unit of GDP, raw wood consumption, material consumption, and carbon dioxide emissions are more than half of the world average. The steel consumption per unit of GDP, cement consumption, non-ferrous metals consumption, water consumption, and ozone layer have reached or exceeded twice the world average. Except these, the ecological environment in the region is relatively fragile. Many countries are in arid and semi-arid environments, and forest coverage is lower than the world average. They should conduct exchanges and applications of meteorological products and meteorological technologies between countries. They also should take part in global meteorological forecasting and climate change research by providing global temperature, humidity profiles, as well as meteorological parameters such as clouds and radiation. All of them are calculated by numerical weather prediction models. They also need to monitor natural disasters, ecological environment, global ice, snow cover, and ozone distribution. Use those data, the countries can provide information services for climate change analysis and prediction. Besides, they need to provide global and regional meteorological information for agricultural, forestry, marine, transportation, and other applications. The information can apply on government decision-making, disaster prevention and mitigation, as well as economic and social development.

5 Conclusion Remote sensing resources in countries along the Belt and Road have a large gap to meet their application needs, while the existing international commercial remote sensing satellite resources can play a good complementary role. However, most countries do not have enough economic development to support the cost of commercial resources. The implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative is of great strategic importance to China. The implementation of the Space information Corridor project may be a solvation. Based on the communication satellites, navigation satellites, and remote sensing satellite resources of China’s on-orbit and planning construction, the space-based resources and the ground information sharing network are appropriately supplemented and formed. The system will be able to provide more powerful spatial information service capabilities for countries and regions along the Belt and Road. It also set up space information corridors to promote information interconnection. At the same time, it will also enable China’s space information industry to reach a new level in the marketization and internationalization of the corridor area and lay a solid foundation for the world.

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Design of an All-Spherical Catadioptric Telescope with Long Focal Length for High-Resolution CubeSat Li Liu1,2(*), Li Chen1,2, Zhenkun Wang1,2, and Weimin Shen1,2 1

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Abstract. Telescopes with aspherical mirrors, long focal length, and large aperture are usually used to acquire high spatial resolution remote sensing images of earth surface, while they are expensive and large in volume. CubeSat is one of the fastest growing sectors in space science and technology, for that it has a relative superiority over other micro and mini satellites in terms of their shorter manufacture time, lower complexity, and most importantly less cost. An optical design of an all-spherical catadioptric telescopic objective for 3 U CubeSat missions is proposed in this chapter, aiming at implementing as low cost as possible. In order to correct aberrations of an all-spherical system, two corrector groups are introduced. One is afocal lens group at the front end of the primary mirror to eliminate spherical and coma aberrations of two-mirror objective. It is composed of two lenses with opposite focal power for achromatic design. Its diameter is close to the size of the primary mirror. The other is a negative focal power group with four pieces of lenses before image plane that amplifies the focal length of the two-mirror structure and corrects astigmatism, field curvature, and distortion aberrations of the whole system. All lenses used are made from the same kind of glass material for the convenience of the athermalization design. Furthermore, in order to minimize its outer barrel length, the secondary mirror adopts a Mangin type, which greatly reduces the marginal ray height of full field of view. Based on the mentioned basic idea and structure, its primary aberration formulas are derived, and the methods for the correction of its aberrations are analyzed. Then a designed example is given. It approaches diffraction-limited imaging performance. The total length of the system is 1/6 less than its effective focal length. At last, tolerance analysis is performed for verifying its manufacturability. Keywords: ISSOIA 2018 · All-spherical system · Compact and low cost · Corrector group

1 Introduction Aerospace remote sensing can get a lot of information from the earth surface, so it is widely used in the field of meteorological observation, resource investigation, mapping, environmental monitoring, and so on. However, the current high-resolution remote sensing cameras have problems such as large size, heavy weight, and high development © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 H. P. Urbach, Q. Yu (eds.), 5th International Symposium of Space Optical Instruments and Applications, Springer Proceedings in Physics 232, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27300-2_3

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cost and launch cost, which restrict the development of the remote sensing industry. A new class of picosatellite, Cube Satellite (CubeSat), was introduced by California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) and Stanford University in 1999, which is dedicated to the development of standardized satellites that can be developed and launched at a very low cost within a year or two, making it possible to develop highresolution, low-cost satellite constellations. A standard one unit (1 U) CubeSat occupies a volume of 10 cm  10 cm  10 cm and weighs no more than 1 kg [1]. Other standards include 2 U, 3 U, and so on. Telescopic objective proposed in this chapter is suitable for 3 U CubeSat missions. In order to achieve high resolution and low cost, the optical system is required for long focal length and compact structure, and all the components are spherical. Long focal length optical system generally adopts all-mirror structure, such as the classic Cassegrain system, Ritchey–Chretien system, three-mirror Korch structure, and cross structure. But these systems employ aspheric mirrors to correct aberrations and improve system performance, resulting in high processing difficulty [2]. In order to reduce the difficulty of processing and to ensure that the performance of the optical system does not decrease, an all-spherical catadioptric telescopic objective incorporating correctors could be employed. In 1934, V.N. Churilovskii proposed an afocal apochromatic corrector of the same material and placed it in front of the image surface of Cassegrain system. It is a typical form of the sub-aperture corrector group. His investigations showed that one apochromatic corrector can eliminate the spherical aberration and coma of the system, while two correctors can in principle eliminate all the image aberrations [3]. But his proposals did not arise public attentions. In 1941, Maksutov presented a full-aperture corrector group with a meniscus thick lens instead of a Schmidt correction plate. Under the conditions of achromatic aberration, the spherical aberration of the primary mirror can be compensated by the proper selection of the curvature radius and thickness of the front and back surfaces of meniscus thick lens. The coma can be adjusted by the distance between the meniscus lens and the primary mirror [4]. In 1975, Klevstov adopted a Mangin-type mirror instead of secondary mirror and placed a meniscus near it. The Mangin mirror can be approximated as a mirror and a negative lens. The aberration theory of this system showed that a reflective element made in Mangin type makes it possible to compensate longitudinal chromatism of either sign, and the monochromatic aberrations introduced by this element do not strongly differ from the aberrations of a convex secondary mirror [5]. All mentioned above are typical corrector groups, which are divided into full-aperture correction and sub-aperture correction according to the aperture size. The full-aperture corrector group has one or two large lenses at the front end of the primary mirror, whose diameter is basically the same as the pupil diameter. The sub-aperture corrector group corrects the aberration caused by spherical primary mirror with some small lenses near secondary mirror or before image surface. In the case of correcting the same spherical aberration, the fullaperture corrector group is more efficient than the sub-aperture corrector group, but there is also a big weight defect. The aim of this chapter is to present an all-spherical telescopic objective with long focal length and high resolution for high-resolution 3 U CubeSat missions by analyzing the aberration characteristics of spherical optical system.

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A two-mirror system corrects spherical aberration and coma by choosing aspherical coefficients. It folds the optical path to reduce volume. However, the use of aspherical mirror brings problems such as difficulty in processing, high cost, and long processing period. The most innovative feature of the proposed system is the all-spherical design to overcome the abovementioned problem. Therefore, how to correct spherical aberration and coma with only spherical components is the key to design. The aberration generated by the primary and secondary mirrors is corrected by combining two kinds of corrector groups. Full-aperture corrector group has a strong aberration correction ability and is applied to the proposed system under the condition of weight allowed. Sub-aperture corrector group is also adopted to amplify the focal length of the two mirrors and correct astigmatism, field curvature, and distortion aberrations of the whole system. There is no chromatic aberration but large negative spherical aberration and coma introduced by concave primary mirror in the R-C system. The afocal corrector group at the front end of the primary mirror is composed of positive and negative lenses made from the same material for achromatic design. The spherical aberration and coma produced by the primary mirror can be compensated by a former achromatic corrector. However, the aberration not only affects the structure of the system but also is related to the tolerance. For the high-quality system designed by the large aberration compensation, some factors change small enough to make the result worse, so the tolerance is very strict [6]. In this case, if the aberration produced by the primary mirror is only corrected by the former corrector, it will lead to the strict tolerance of the former corrector, which is not conducive to the processing and adjustment. It is worth considering replacing the secondary mirror with a Mangin type to share the task of correcting aberration of the primary mirror. Mangin mirror is a good element for eliminating spherical aberrations [7]. It consists of a mirror and a meniscus attached to it. The spherical aberration can be adjusted by selecting the curvature radius of its surface. Furthermore, Mangin mirror plays the role of compressing marginal ray height of full field of view and shortening the outer barrel. The whole system draws lessons from the long focal lens structure of the telephoto-objective system. The sub-aperture corrector group along with the primary and secondary Mangin mirrors makes up positive focal power group, and four pieces of lenses are the negative focal power group. On the one hand, the focal length is multiplied, and the length of the optical system is reduced. On the other hand, the chromatic aberration introduced by the Mangin mirror can be balanced, as well as residual coma, astigmatism, field curvature, and distortion in the system. In pursuit of improving the performance of the optical system, it is also necessary to consider the difficulty of processing and alignment, and the outer barrel should be designed for this system. So the balance between the system performance, the system tolerance, and the length of the outer barrel needs to be considered. The smaller the radius of curvature of the primary mirror is, the more compact the system is, but the tolerance is more stringent. Under the condition that the radii of curvature of the primary mirror and the secondary mirror obscuration are all constants, the lower the light compression of Mangin mirror, the shorter the length of the outer barrel, while the

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The structure and aberration of the system are analyzed under the normalization condition. Based on the design concepts, the ratio of the focal power of the primary mirror ϕ1 to the whole system focal power ϕ indicates the amplification of the focal length of the primary and secondary mirrors by the latter lens group, and the relationship between ϕ1 and ϕ is as follows: ϕ1 ¼ mϕ

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mirror. The primary mirror focuses the light on the secondary Mangin mirror, then the light passes twice through the front surface of the Margin mirror. The latter corrector group is finally passed through to image plane. Moreover, four pieces of lenses L5, L6, L7, and L8 are used to shorten the total length of this optical system and to correct residual aberration. Total length from the secondary mirror to the focal plane (FP) in the optical design is less than 1/6 of the effective focal length. Rear working distance is longer than 20 mm for detector installation. Because of the strong compression ability of the Mangin mirror, the length of the outer barrel required by the system is 50 mm, and this novel optical system can be applied to the 3 U CubeSat missions. All used lenses are made from K7. Figure 1 shows the design layout of the CubeSat telescopic objective. The design and analysis are carried out with the Zemax optical design program. In order to evaluate the imaging quality of the whole system, the modulation transfer function (MTF) curve, spot diagram, distortion curve, and longitudinal aberration are given. As shown in Fig. 2, the MTF curves of each field of view are close to diffraction

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limit, and the MTF value of full field of view is higher than 0.22 at the Nyquist frequency. Figure 3 depicts the spot diagram of each field of view on the image plane. It can be seen that in the whole band and all field of view, the spot diagram is mainly within the Airy spot, and the system has diffraction-limited imaging characteristics. The RMS radii of central and full maximum field are 4.126 μm and 3.253 μm, respectively. The distortion curve on the image plane can be seen in Fig. 4. The abscissa coordinates the relative distortion expressed in percentage, and the ordinate represents different field of view. It can be seen from the diagram that the distortion of the full field of view is the largest, which is 0.3%. Figure 5 shows the longitudinal aberration of this system. The abscissa is the distance from the focal plane, and the ordinates are normalized with different apertures. The curves of different colors represent different wavelengths. The maximum longitudinal aberration is within the focal depth. In summary, the results meet the requirements of the index, compact structure, and suitable distance for the detector installation. The imaging quality approaches diffraction limit. Compared with the existing compact optical remote sensing payloads with long focal length, the designed coaxial all-spherical catadioptric telescopic objective is suitable for the application of 3 U CubeSat remote sensing. It has the advantages of light, small, easy to process and low cost, but it also has the shortcoming of the outer barrel.

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4 Conclusion A compact all-spherical catadioptric telescopic objective for 3 U CubeSat missions is studied and designed. The design concept of the system is introduced, and the aberration analysis method is emphasized. The given example has the advantages of light weight, easy processing, and compact structure. The MTF curve, spot diagram, distortion curve, and longitudinal aberration are used to evaluate the image quality of the system. The results show that the system has good image quality, meeting the requirements of the index. According to the result of tolerance allocation, the tolerance requirements meet the existing process level, and the system after the tolerance still meets the requirements of the index.

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Acknowledgments This work was supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFB05500501-02). Thanks to the support of the project of the Priority Academic Program Development (PAPD) of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.

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Design of Lobster-Eye Focusing System for Dark Matter Detection Yun Su1(*), Xianmin Wu1, Long Dong1, Hong Lv1, Zhiyuan Li2, and Meng Su3 1

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Abstract. Dark matter and dark energy are recognized as “Two dark clouds shrouded in the clear sky of physics in the twenty-first century.” Experimental and theoretical exploration of dark matter and dark energy will greatly deepen people’s understanding of the microcosm and the macrocosm and is likely to bring about a revolutionary breakthrough in the basic theory of physics. X-ray dark matter detection has attracted more and more attention in the field of dark matter searching area. This paper focuses on the detection of sterile neutrino dark matter particles in the keV band and designs the detection scheme for dark matter particles. Based on the X-ray total reflection theory, the imaging principles of lobster-eye optics are discussed, and the influence of the structure factor on the focusing performance is also investigated. The models of the lobster-eye optics that are designed for different detection modes have been setup by a simulation tool, and the imaging simulations are carried out. The results show that the focusing performance of the lobster-eye optics improves prominently when the optics structure is designed for different energy spectrum distribution. Under the condition of existing processing technology, a lobster-eye optics experimental sample has been made, and the result of the experiment based on this device shows a clear cross pattern and peak intensity, and this verifies the focusing properties of lobster-eye optics. Keywords: Dark matter · Sterile neutrino · X-ray detection · Lobster-eye optics

1 Introduction A large number of astronomical observations over the past half century have established that the main components of the universe are dark matter and dark energy [1]. However, the particle physics standard model cannot explain the physical nature of dark matter and dark energy, so they are recognized as “two dark clouds shrouded in the clear sky of physics in the twenty-first century.” The experimental and theoretical exploration of dark matter and dark energy will greatly deepen people’s understanding of the microcosm and macrocosm, and it is very likely to bring a revolutionary breakthrough in the fundamental theory of physics. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 H. P. Urbach, Q. Yu (eds.), 5th International Symposium of Space Optical Instruments and Applications, Springer Proceedings in Physics 232, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27300-2_4

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Theoretical studies have shown that inert neutrinos may play an important role in the fundamental problems of particle physics such as baryon asymmetry, lepton asymmetry, and large-scale nuclear synthesis [2–4]. The particular importance is that inert neutrinos with masses falling in the keV energy region are ideal dark matter particles and have the properties of “warm dark matter” (WDM) [5–6]. The important value of inert neutrinos in particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology has attracted extensive attention from astronomers and experimental physicists. At present, many teams in the world are working on the detection of inert neutrinos [7–9]. If it can be achieved, it will not only be a major breakthrough in cosmological research but also a milestone in particle physics. The project plans to develop a new X-ray detector technology, combined with the advantages of large field of view and high energy resolution, to find evidence of the existence of keV inert neutrino dark matter in the cluster of neighboring galaxies.

2 Progress The rapid development of X-ray astronomy has been made possibly by widely applying X-ray focusing telescopes on satellites. The Wolter I [10] reflecting optics (Fig. 1), consisting of a parabolic mirror followed by a hyperbolic mirror, is the most popular geometry employed. It has been applied aboard many satellites including Chandra and XMM-Newton in 1990s (see Figs. 2 and 3), Swift and Suzaku as well as NuSTAR in the twenty-first century. Although telescopes with Wolter I optics have remarkable spatial resolution, the FoV is usually very small (less than 1 ). However, the lobster-eye optics [11] overcomes the restricted FoV of Wolter optics. A telescope adopting lobster-eye optics can have a much wider FoV and lower mass at the same time, which make it very suitable as an X-ray all-sky monitor. Therefore, the lobster-eye optics has become a hot research topic [12]. The early applications of X-ray observations to search for keV inert neutrino decay signals failed to detect clear signals but still provided effective limits for some

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momentum wheel bracket and finally connected with the satellite plate. First, the model boundary condition is set to the fixed support at the junction of the support vehicle, and the finite element model is modified according to the data of the ground test; that makes the analytical response at the key position of the camera consistent with the test results. The vibration characteristics of the momentum wheel are studied by Liu and Maghami. The results show that the output disturbance spectrum of the momentum wheel is mainly based on the frequency component of the momentum wheel speed [7], and the disturbance model can be simulated by the sinusoidal load of the speed of the momentum wheel [8]. The amplitude of the load should be based on the RMS of the experimental data, so that the disturbance energy can be simulated better. Although a small part of the simulation analysis results is in large error compared with the ground test data, it is consistent with the trend of response propagation. It can be deduced that the micro-vibration dynamics simulation model is accurate, and to a certain extent, it can effectively respond to the satellite micro-vibration and its transmission characteristics. Finally, the solar arrays are added to the model, and the boundary condition of the model is set as a free state, and the analysis of the rotation of the mirrors in orbit is carried out. The finite element model of the satellite micro-vibration analysis is shown in Fig. 1. 3.2

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4 Analysis of the Influence of Micro-Vibration on Imaging Quality The influence of micro-vibration on the imaging quality of space camera includes two aspects. One is blurred image, which is mainly caused by high frequency microvibration, but the distortion of the image, which is mainly caused by low frequency micro-vibration. Low frequency and high frequency are divided according to the critical frequency. The micro-vibration with higher frequency than the critical frequency is called high frequency micro-vibration, otherwise it is called low frequency microvibration. The critical frequency is related to the integral time and integral series of TDICCD [9, 10]. According to the common imaging parameters of the TDICCD space camera in this paper, the critical frequency can be obtained to be 146.9 Hz. According to the Sect. 3, when the momentum wheel is all running, the optical axis angles and the camera misalignment angles change the most. In this section, the influence of momentum wheel micro-vibration on the imaging quality of the camera is judged only by this condition. When the momentum wheel is all running, the spectrum of camera’s optical axis rotation angle and the camera misalignment rotation angle are shown in Figs. 2 and 3. As shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the frequency of the micro-vibration caused by momentum wheels is much lower than that of the critical frequency 146.9 Hz, and the proportion of the frequency above the critical frequency is very small. Therefore, the influence of the momentum wheel on the imaging quality of the space camera on the satellite platform is mainly the distortion of the image. The above rotating angle

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Integrated Design of Platform and Payload for Remote Sensing Satellite Jiaguo Zu1(*), Teng Wang1, and Yanhua Wu1 1

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Abstract. Integrated mechanical design of platform and payload is an important part of system design for remote sensing satellite. In this paper, the necessity of integrated design is studied based on the consumer requirement. Three parts of integrated mechanical design have been summarized, and each part has been deeply discussed and studied. Keywords: Remote sensing satellite · Integrated mechanical design · Platform · Payload

1 Introduction The integrated design of satellite platform and payload is an important part of remote sensing satellite system design, especially in the present situation, as satellite users are eager for higher satellite performance, which brings the increasing size of the payload. The integrated design of system and payload is an effective technical approach to solve this problem. In recent years, the research on integrated mechanical design has also become more and more in-depth. Satellite in orbit, whether it is a large satellite or a small satellite, whether military surveillance satellite or commercial remote sensing satellite, can be found out using the idea of integrated mechanical design. This paper analyzes the demand for satellite-integrated mechanical design, and then the three main contents of integrated mechanical design are summarized, and the deep research and discussion on the three main contents are conducted.

2 Integrated Mechanical Design Requirements Optical remote sensing satellites have been developing with higher resolution, better image quality, and higher efficiency. They behave more reliably and cost less. In addition to the improvement of the payload performance, the mechanical design of satellite systems is refined and integrated.

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High-resolution requirements: Cameras on satellite are usually designed with large diameter and long focal length. The diameter of the camera exceeds 1 m, and the mass exceeds 1 t. The camera takes up a lot of space in satellite. The large-scale camera requires the satellite platform to have stronger carrying capacity, at the same time. The camera requires a better mechanical environment. The satellite platform and the payload independently achieve high-strength, high-rigidity characteristics, and it is costly. High image quality requirements: The optical axis of the camera is sensitive to the micro-vibration and thermal deformation of the platform, and the stability of the satellite platform is extremely demanding. An integrated design of the full link is required in the perspective of the system. High image target positioning accuracy requires a uniform and stable space-time reference between the camera and the satellite platform, eliminating deviations in matching conversion. High usage performance requirements: Satellites have efficient task execution capabilities. Platforms and payload need to be integrated around agile design. The design includes agile configuration design and small inertia/high maneuver design (Fig. 1).

3 Integrated Mechanical Design Content According to the analysis of task requirements, the overall idea of the integrated mechanical design is to conduct a satellite configuration design and a structure design around the payload configuration, optimize the satellite quality and inertia, optimize the force transmission path, develop a distributed vibration isolation design, and take into account the interests of both parties in carrying out the load and platform design. Balance the interests of both parties in carrying out payload and platform design. Complete the satellite configuration and structural parameters of the optimal design through the use of optical, mechanical, thermal integration design, and analysis methods, so that the overall system performance is optimal. The contents of integrated mechanical design can be mainly summarized as configuration and layout design, structural mechanics design, and micro-vibration suppression design (Fig. 2).

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4 Integrated Overall Configuration and Layout Design The integrated configuration of the remote sensing satellite payload and platform brings about the compression of the whole satellite scale, the reduction of the whole satellite rotation inertia, and the improvement of the platform bearing ratio, around the reasonable layout of payload. The topology of the remote sensing satellite configuration evolved from the original platform-load docking configuration to the embedded configuration and from the embedded configuration to the converged configuration, as shown in Fig. 3. The current general opinion is that the embedded configuration and the converged configuration are all included in the typical integrated configuration. The difference between the two configurations: the embedded configuration is based on the integrated configuration of the

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The coaxial two-mirror system is characterized by large aperture, no chromatic aberration, and wide reflection range. It has very important applications in astronomical telescopes, infrared or ultraviolet optical systems. Both the primary mirror and the secondary mirror are quadric surfaces, and the surface equation is:   r 2 ¼ 2Rx  1  e2 x2

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The initial structure of the R-C system has been determined in Sect. 4, and for the rear lens group, five spherical thin lenses are selected. Firstly, the glass material with a certain Abbe number is selected; then assuming that the half aperture of each lens is 40 mm; finally, the power of five single lenses is determined according to the achromatic condition of the system, and the original parameters of each thin lens are obtained. The full field of view is chosen to be 0.8  0.8 .Ray tracing and optimization design are performed by using ZEMAX software [6]. The focal length of the space optical remote sensor is optimized to 5400 mm, and the total length of system is 880 mm. The structure of system is shown in Fig. 2. The initial parameters and optimized parameters of the R-C system are shown in Table 2 below:

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smaller than the Airy spot radius (1.22λF # ¼ 1.22  0.6  9  6.6 μm) in the full field of view; the curve of geometric encircled energy is shown in Fig. 4b. In the pixel size, the power concentration is better than 70%, and the image quality is good. The field curvature of the space optical remote sensor is less than 0.25 mm in the full field of view, and the distortion is less than 1.1%, as shown in Fig. 5a below. The variation of wavefront aberration with wavelength is shown in Fig. 5b. The RMS wavefront aberration is 0.02 waves to 0.08 waves in the full field of view.

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Study on Optical Swap Computational Imaging Method Xiaopeng Shao1(*), Yazhe Wei1, Fei Liu1, Shengzhi Huang1, Lixian Liu1, and Weixin Feng1 1

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Abstract. A novel framework of optical SWaP (Size, Weight, and Power/Price) computational imaging method is proposed to solve the problem of large size, heavy weight, and high power consumption in traditional military optoelectronic weapon equipment. The key point of traditional optical system design is focused on the various geometrical aberration correction through adding the number of lenses, which leads to a complex structure. However, optical SWaP computational imaging method, established a geometrical aberration correction physical model by the optical system design and image processing theory, which was adopted to optimize the optical imaging system. In this study, the difficulty to correct different kinds of geometric aberrations by image processing is analyzed, providing the possibility for correcting easily corrected aberrations by image processing. Furthermore, a simple lens imaging system was designed by the proposed method and the objective evaluation criterion is employed to analyze the final imaging performance. The result shows that optical SWaP computational imaging method can get an excellent imaging performance compared with the result of traditional method. And it is also feasible for correction of optical system aberration through image processing algorithm. Due to the great possibility of fewer lenses needed, higher transmittance efficiency, simpler implementation, and cost-effectiveness, optical SWaP computational imaging method exhibits a great potential. Keywords: Computational imaging · Optical system design · Modulation transfer function

1 Introduction In traditional optical imaging system, imaging resolution and detection distance depend on optical parameters, such as aperture and focal length. And there are contradictions among the field of view (FOV), image-resolution, the size, and the weight of optical system. In addition, traditional imaging method also exists an insurmountable diffraction limit [1]. In order to solve these problems, researchers began to study the problemoriented computational imaging, which can realize tasks that couldn’t be accomplished by traditional imaging method [2]. Computational imaging converts physical problems into mathematical problems, and then solve the problems by mathematical tools. Generally, computational imaging is divided into two parts including optical system design and image processing design. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 H. P. Urbach, Q. Yu (eds.), 5th International Symposium of Space Optical Instruments and Applications, Springer Proceedings in Physics 232, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27300-2_12

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Image processing is only a supplement to lens design in computational imaging, and they are not equally important, which is a natural development in the history of photography [3]. However, image processing in the optical SWaP computational imaging method is no longer a supplement to optical design but a role equal to optical system design. The optical SWaP method aims to minimize the size, weight, power, and price of optical system. Since the rapid development of electronic integration follows Moore’s Law from submicron to nanoscale level [4], and its integrated design makes the superiority of electronic systems significant in weight, size, power, and price. In contrast, the development of optics integration is constrained by the basic theory. Dowski and Cathey built a new imaging methodology called Wavefront Coding, using aspheric optics and signal processing to reduce system complexity and deliver high-quality imagery [5, 6]. Robinson and Stork introduced a novel framework for designing digital imaging systems and specifically an end-to-end merit function based on pixel-wise mean squared error [7]. Based on these methods, we analyze the difficulty to correct different kinds of geometric aberrations by image processing, and then try to correct spherical aberration by Wiener filter [5, 6, 8, 9]. In this paper, a whole chain optimization design model was established from optical system to image processing. The optical SWaP computational imaging method can break through the bottlenecks of traditional optical imaging, greatly reducing the size, weight, power, and price of military optoelectronic systems. It can be widely used in wide-area surveillance alarms systems, airborne-mounted photoelectric equipment, earth-based early warning systems, high-resolution earth observation systems, and other fields.

2 Theory Fermat’s principle states that light travels from one point to another along a path of extreme value [10]. As shown in Fig. 1, from the object point S at the finite object distance to the image point S0, the geometrical distances of different light rays passing through the lens are different. According to Fermat’s principle, their optical paths should take the extreme value. But they cannot all take the maximum value or minimum value, so the only result is to take the constant value. In other words, the optical paths of different lights from the object point through the lens to the image point are equal.

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performance metric to realize the global optimal imaging system. So an metric that can analyze and predict the end-to-end overall imaging performance is needed [19, 20]. The mean square error (MSE) is a statistical metric of the average error of all pixels in an image. Therefore, the MSE between the processed image and the ideal image is taken as the performance metric of optical SWaP computational imaging method. Mean square error is defined as [21]. MSE ¼ ε½s^ðx, yÞ  sðx, yÞ2

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4 Result and Discussion According to Fig. 5, an attempt is made to correct the spherical aberration left specially for image processing in optical SWaP computational imaging method, and the overall performances metric are compared with traditional method. A single lens is used for the experiment. The lens specifications are shown in Table 1. While traditional design method pursues the optimal performance of optical subsystem and image processing subsystem, respectively, optical SWaP computational imaging design method seeks to achieve the global optimum. In order to compare the differences between the two kinds of design methods, this paper compares the imaging performance metrics of the optical system and the overall system. As shown in Fig. 6a, b, when the spatial frequency of MTF curve is lower than 60 lp/mm, the values of traditional optical design method is higher than optical SWaP computational imaging method. The condition is opposite while the spatial frequency is higher than 60 lp/mm. Therefore, optical SWaP computational imaging method gains higher spatial frequency information at the cost of losing lower spatial frequency information. As shown in Fig. 6c, d, the root mean square (RMS) radius of traditional optical design method is smaller than optical SWaP computational design method, indicates a better optical performance of traditional optical design method. As shown in Fig. 6e, f, the PSF curves of optical SWaP method have less oscillation and less zero in each field than traditional method. Since the image processing algorithm cannot recover the image information lost at the zero point, the optical image of optical SWaP computational imaging method is easier to be restored by the image processing algorithm. Figure 7 is the processed images of the two design methods. To make the comparison effect more obvious, the same area of the magnified images were selected. The symbol S represents the size of the Wiener filter in pixels. As shown in Fig. 7, the optical image clarity of traditional method is higher than SWaP method. However, processed with Wiener filter algorithm of the same filter size S, the noise of SWaP method is weak, the image quality of the edge is improved Table 1 Lens specifications Wavelength F# FOV Focal length Glass material

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CCD Detector’s Temperature Effect on Performance of the Space Camera Xiaohong Zhang1(*), Xiaoyong Wang1, Zhixue Han1, Chunmei Li1, Pan Lu1, and Jun Zheng1 1

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Abstract. CCD detector is the nucleus device of the space remote sensing camera. The performance of CCD detector seriously affects the performance of the space camera. CCD detector’s temperature has a significant influence on its performance. In order to study this influence, the temperature impact verification of CCD detector was carried out. The test scheme of dark signal under high-low temperature environment and the test scheme of radiation calibration under different temperature conditions are developed. The test verification has been completed. Based on the analysis of the experimental data, the quantization relations of the influence of temperature on the parameters such as dark signal, dark noise, signal-to-noise ratio, and dynamic range have been researched. These results have important reference values for the development of space camera. Keywords: Remote sensing · Space camera · Charge-coupled device · Time delay integration CCD · Dark noise · Signal-to-noise ratio · Dynamic range

1 Introduction In order to study the influence of different temperatures of CCD detector on CCD performance, a scheme of test verification was developed. According to the test scheme, the temperature impact test of 8192 pixel TDICCD detector was verified. The experimental results were analyzed, and the quantitative relations between the performance of CCD detector (dark signal, signal-to-noise ratio, dynamic range) and temperature were obtained.

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thermal insulation time. Figure 3 is the TDICCD, focal plane circuit, and signal processing circuit participating in the experiment. The experiment is conducted according to the following steps: 1. Circuit connection and self-check, close the light source in the oven. Then block the TDICCD, and make the TDICCD completely black. 2. Heat up to 30  C by temperature increasing rate 1  C/min, keep the temperature 0.5 h, then electrify the circuit, and collect an image. 3. Drop to 25  C by temperature decreasing rate 1  C/min, keep the temperature 15 min, then electrify the circuit, and collect an image. 4. Drop to 20  C by temperature decreasing rate 1  C/min, keep the temperature 15 min, then electrify the circuit, and collect an image. 5. By temperature decreasing rate 1  C/min, keep the temperature 15 min at each temperature point, then electrify the circuit, and collect an image. 6. Drop to 15  C by temperature decreasing rate 1  C/min, keep the temperature 0.5 h, then electrify the circuit, and collect an image. 7. Heat up to 10  C by temperature increasing rate 1  C/min, keep the temperature 15 min, then electrify the circuit, and collect an image. 8. By temperature increasing rate 1  C/min, keep the temperature 15 min at each temperature point, then electrify the circuit, and collect an image. 9. Heat up to 30  C by temperature increasing rate 1  C/min, keep the temperature 0.5 h, then electrify the circuit, and collect an image. 10. Drop to the room temperature by temperature decreasing rate 1  C/min, the end of the test. Each temperature point continuously collects 1024 lines of images, that is, each temperature point can obtain an image of 8192 (column)  1024 (line).

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The Thermal Stability Analysis of the LOS of the Remote Sensor Based on the Sensitivity Matrix Yuting Lu1(*), Yong Liu1, and Zong Chen1 1

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Abstract. The positioning accuracy and the stability of camera LOS (line of sight) has been increasingly and highly demanded by the users of remote sensors due to the extensive use of remote sensing images. The temperature has an increasing effect on the stability of the camera LOS as the focal length of camera becomes longer and longer. In order to achieve the temperature changing effect on the stability of the LOS, this chapter takes a camera as an example, using the TD (Thermal Desktop) to establish the model of heat conduction, using the finite element software to create the construct model, and using CODEV to achieve LOS sensitivity matrix of optics system, completing the camera hot-structure-light all link model. On the basis of which, the chapter achieves four extreme thermal boundary conditions of the camera in the process of on-orbit life through analyzing outside heat flow, with the analysis by the finite element model (FEM), we can get that six degrees of freedom displacement of the optical element. Using the six degrees of freedom displacement data with optical sensitivity matrix, we can get a camera LOS of the short-term and long-term changes in value. The results show that the maximum change value of LOS is 0.26800 and the positioning accuracy error by temperature of the camera is no more than 0.8 m. The method in this chapter can provide reference for other cameras’ LOS analysis, and for the camera thermal control. Keywords: Line of sight · Stability · Sensitivity matrix

1 Introduction With the widespread of remote sensing image, users have higher and higher requirements of positional accuracy of the image [1]. Now, positional accuracy has become an important index of satellite system. Among foreign remote sensing satellites, the technology has been rapidly developing from 0.82m panchromatic resolution of IKONOS satellite in 1999, 9m uncontrolled positioning accuracy (CE90) [2–4] to 0.41m panchromatic resolution of Geoeye-1 in 2008, 2m uncontrolled positioning accuracy (CE90) [5, 6], and 0.3m panchromatic resolution of Worldview-4 launched in 2016, 3m uncontrolled positioning accuracy (CE90) [7, 8]. The first satellite of TH-1 had achieved 15.2m (CE90) uncontrolled positioning accuracy nationwide in 2010.

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The third satellite of TH-1 launched in 2015 had achieved 10.6m (CE90) [9, 10] uncontrolled positioning accuracy. The factors which can influence the satellite image positioning accuracy are except for the measurement accuracy of star sensor gyroscope and accuracy of ground image data processing, it also includes the stability of satellite in-orbit system, especially stability of inner orientation parameter of camera load and the camera LOS relative to the star sensor imaging reference [11]. All the surveying and mapping satellites in foreign countries have carried out the stability design of LOS, and our country have paid more and more attention to the stability of LOS. However, LOS changes with the launching impact, on-orbit micro-vibration and the orbit space environment. The temperature environment of the remote sensor in-orbit is very complex and temperature difference will seriously influence the image quality of optical system. As a result, thermal optical properties of optical system become important indicators of space remote sensor [12–14]. With longer and longer camera focal length, the temperature impacts on camera LOS are becoming bigger and bigger. In order to test the influence of on-orbit temperature variation on stability of camera LOS, take one camera for an example, it builds a hotstructure-light all link model of camera. Based on the above content, this chapter obtains the short-time and long-time change values of the camera LOS through the extreme thermal boundary conditions in the orbit life of the camera.

2 The Principle of LOS Affecting the Positioning Accuracy LOS can cause image motion, and some foreign literature describe this phenomenon with the change of LOS. The change in the direction of roll axis and pitch axis can be uniformly called the change in the direction of LOS, which has similar effects on image motion. In general, the change of LOS is only related to angular displacement. The relationship between LOS and image motion is shown in Fig. 1. As shown in Fig. 1, the angle between the main light of the target and LOS is α before rotation, and the angular displacement around ox axis (or oy axis) is θx (or θy) qx(qy)

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During the orbit of the camera, due to the influence of external heat flux, the temperature of satellite star sensor and camera itself is in constant change. The change of temperature will lead to the distortion of the star sensor’s structure and camera’s structure, which makes the angle between LOS of the camera and LOS of the star sensor change from time to time. This change of LOS caused by temperature is difficult to calibrate, which results in the difference between the position coordinates of the image calculated by the star sensor and the position indicated by LOS of the camera, and which results in a decrease in the location accuracy without ground control points of the image. In addition to thermal effect, jitter also affects location accuracy, but the influence of jitter is mainly short term. Thermal effects can be divided into long-term effects and short-term effects. This chapter mainly discusses the change of location accuracy caused by thermal environment. The analytical path from thermal environment to location accuracy without ground control points is shown in Fig. 2.

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A thermal model was established using TD (Thermal Desktop). According to the external heat flux, the temperature field of each part can be obtained. Taking SM as an example, the temperature field distribution of SM under low-temperature working condition in low-temperature transient condition is given in Fig. 4. Finite element software is used to build the finite element model as shown in Fig. 3. The results of TD thermal analysis were added to the structural model by temperature mapping. Then the results of thermo-elastic deformation were obtained by finite element analysis. Figure 5 shows the finite element model used in structural thermodynamics. Figure 6 shows the displacement cloud diagram of each part of the camera under low-temperature working condition for external heat flux in low-temperature transient condition. Table 3 shows the displacement of each optical element in all working conditions.

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We define the maximum value of high-temperature condition minus the minimum value of low-temperature transient condition as the maximum LOS variation in the longterm period. We can get the following: In a long period, the maximum variation LOS of Main Body A is 0.26800 (0.24800 þ 0.0200 ). In a long period, the maximum variation LOS of Main Body B is 0.26500 (0.24500 þ 0.0200 ). No matter short term or long term, the maximum LOS variation is 0.26800 . According to the formula in the second section, it can be calculated that the corresponding image motion is 0.8 pixels, and the image positioning error caused by the thermal influence of the camera itself is less than 0.8 m.

6 Conclusion This chapter completes the camera hot-structure-light all link model. On the basis of which, the chapter achieves four extreme thermal boundary conditions of the camera in the process of on-orbit life through analyzing outside heat flow, with the analysis by the finite element model (FEM), we can get that six degrees of freedom displacement of the optical element. Using the six degrees of freedom displacement data with optical sensitivity matrix, we can get a camera LOS of the short-term and long-term changes in value. The results show that the maximum change value of LOS is 0.26800 and the positioning accuracy error by temperature of the camera is no more than 0.8 m. The method of this chapter can provide reference for other cameras’ LOS analysis, and for the camera thermal control.

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Abstract. With the development of human society and advances in science and technology, the need of looking for extraterrestrial energy and expanding human living space is increasing. Spectrometer played an irreplaceable role in the deep space exploration in recent decades, which was very effective in the research on physical and chemical properties of substances. By combining image data and fine spectral information, imaging spectrometer can obtain the spectral characteristics and spatial distributions of material compositions at the same time. Required by the detailed determination in both spatial and spectral dimensions of target body, the study on the sensors with high spatial resolution, high spectral resolution, and high detection sensitivity becomes an important technical direction in deep space exploration field. This method can provide higher precision detection means and science data with richer information for the research on space science exploration. The application of hyperspectral imaging in deep space exploration is discussed. The spectrometers using filters, grating spectrometers, and Fourier transform spectrometers applied in previous deep space exploration missions are concluded. The advantages and disadvantages of different spectroscopic methods are discussed, and the development trend of spectrometers for deep space exploration is analyzed. Based on the characteristics of small solar system bodies’ exploration, the scientific objects of detection for nearearth asteroids (NEAs) and main belt comets (MBCs) are present. According to the mission requirements of NEA remote sensing, in situ analysis and sample return, and MBC investigation, and based on the requirements for composition studies of NEA and MBC, the main specifications of visible and infrared imaging spectrometer for small solar system bodies are designed. The spectral coverage of the spectrometer is from visible to medium wave infrared (0.4–5 μm). The spatial and spectral information can be obtained simultaneously with the spatial resolution of 0.5 m at 5 km observation distance. High spectral resolution of 5 nm in visible band and medium spectral resolution of 10 nm in infrared band are realized. The signal-to-noise ratio of the instrument can be better than 100. A convex grating with two different groove densities in different regions is used to realize the integration of visible and infrared bands in a single offner spectrometer. The optical system is very compact so that the volume and mass of the instrument can be lower. Considering the albedo and temperature of most target bodies are very low, cryo-refrigeration technique for detector is adapted to reduce the dark current and its noise, and the optical-mechanical system is cooled to reduce the noise produced by background radiation. Thus the

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1 Introduction Deep space exploration refers to the exploration of planets and space matter by entering into the solar system and space without the gravitational field of the earth. As an important branch of remote sensing, astronomical observation, and planetary science, deep space exploration has become an important means to study the origin and evolution of the universe, to know the formation and evolution of the earth’s environment, and then to use space resources and expand living space [1]. Pioneer-5 was launched successfully by NASA in March 1960, which is the first probe for deep space exploration in human history. Since the twenty-first century, the United States, Russia, Europe, and Japan have made the long-term planning and schedule of the exploration. Deep space exploration has become one of the main development directions of space activities in the world [2]. Imaging spectrometry is a new interdisciplinary combined optical imaging and spectrum detection, which was born in the 1980s. The characteristics of geometry and spectral dimensions can be obtained from imaging spectral data, so that the material composition can be classified, analyzed, and recognized. With the development of electronics, device processing and remote sensing science, imaging spectroscopy has become an important observation means of aviation and space remote sensing, which is widely used in many fields of mineral exploration, agricultural production, ocean remote sensing, environmental monitoring, disaster prevention and mitigation, military reconnaissance, etc. The emergence of hyperspectral imaging is a revolution in the field of remote sensing. Applied in deep space exploration rapidly, hyperspectral imaging becomes an effective method for study of physical and chemical properties of substances, such as atmospheric composition, rocks and minerals, water ice, etc. By the combination of image data and fine spectral information, the spectral features and spatial distributions of target bodies can be determined simultaneously. Continuous updating and improving of detection technology enhance humans’ ability to explore the space, meanwhile, the requirements of detection elements refining and high retrieval accuracy for space science research also promote the rapid development of high sensitive and hyperspectral imaging technology. The application of hyperspectral imaging in deep space exploration is discussed. Based on the spectrum detection of small solar system bodies, the science goals, main specifications, and key techniques are analyzed.

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2 Application of Hyperspectral Imaging in Deep Space Exploration Spectrum is the only identification card of matter, with the ability of fine characterization of properties. High-resolution spectral data provided by hyperspectral imaging technology can be used to distinguish physical and chemical properties of substances better. Nearly 50% of the existing deep space detection payloads are the spectral imaging instruments, which have collected many spectral image data to analyze material compositions on the surface of celestial bodies. For example, the primary purpose of humans to explore the space is to understand whether life exists or once, related to detect whether there is water on objects. One method is to directly detect water ice or rime ice on the surface of the object. The other is to detect whether there is carbonate, which is formed by a chemical reaction between carbon dioxide gas dissolved in water and metal. And many minerals have distinguishable absorption and reflection characteristics in visible and infrared band, concentrated with lots of absorption peaks of minerals and metallogenic structure features. The lunar surface is mainly composed of four kinds of minerals without vegetation, namely, pyroxene, calcium feldspar, olivine, and ilmenite. These minerals have some spectral features in visible and infrared band according to the research results of the samples brought by Apollo series spacecraft. In 2007, China’s first lunar exploration satellite “Chang’e-1” was carrying on an interference imaging spectrometer. This spectrometer realized the continuous spectrum detection of the moon over visible and near infrared band, thus the scientific goals of analyzing the useful elements and its distribution, studying the types, contents, and distribution of materials on lunar surface are accomplished [3]. Life, geology, climate, and manned landing of the Mars are the four major scientific directions of NASA’s Mars exploration. As early as in 2005, NASA found spectral evidence of hydrated salt on Mars by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) carried on Mars Reconnaissance orbiter (MRO), which confirmed the existence of liquid water and brought the hope of searching for life on Mars [4]. In the first Mars exploration activity planned by China, the spectrum observation and distribution detection of minerals and rocks for mineral identification on the surface of Mars are the main mission. In 2016, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has entered orbit around the Jupiter, starting the first close observation of the planet. The information about Jupiter deep structure have been transferred from Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM), Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVS), and JunoCam (JCM), which provide the evidence to verify the theory of the origin and evolution of solar system [5]. For asteroids detection, NASA launched the first asteroid sample return mission called OSIRIS-REx in 2016, delivering a Thermal Emission Spectrometer (OTES) and a Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (OVIRS), which can quickly obtain the key surface physical information of asteroid for the preparation for asteroid impact and the study on universe evolution and origin of life [6]. At present, the spectral imaging for deep space exploration mainly uses these four kinds of spectrometer, which is the imaging spectrometer using filter, dispersion imaging spectrometer, and interference imaging spectrometer.

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The spectrometer uses filter wheel to switch different bands in turns to detect the different spectral images. Surface Stereo Imager (SSI) carried on Phoenix Mars Lander is used for the high-resolution geological mapping, mechanical arm working areas mapping, multispectral analysis, and atmospheric observations. Two cameras imitating human stereoscopic vision have two filter wheels, which can produce 12 spectral bands for each camera [7]. This method is only suitable for multispectral detection as the number of spectral channels is dependent on the quantity limit of the filters. Linear variable filter is a kind of wedge filter in front of the detector. Interference produced by membrane thickness changing linearly with the position makes the light of different wavelengths transmit through the different positions of the filter. One dimension of the array detector is spatial dimension, and the other is spectral dimension. The spectrogram of the same scene is obtained by different pixels at different times. OVIRS employs wedged filter to provide the spectrum from 0.4 to 4.3 μm, with the spectral resolution of 7.5–22 nm. OVIRS will provide asteroid spectral data and global spectral maps by scanning mode, of mineralogical and molecular components including carbonates, silicates, sulfates, oxides, absorbed water, and a wide range of organic species [8]. The advantage of this kind of technical scheme lies in its simple structure and small volume, but there are some problems such as spectral drift and nonsimultaneous imaging when the incident angle of the light is large. Acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF) is a kind of electro-optic modulation spectroscopic device that uses solid crystal materials. Based on the principle of acousto-optic effect, wavelength selection can be realized by Bragg diffraction of light incident to the transmission medium when sound waves propagate in anisotropic medium. SPICAM (Spectroscopy for the Investigation of the Characteristics of the Atmosphere of Mars) is an ultraviolet and infrared atmospheric spectrometer on the ESA Mars Express mission with UV channel (118–320 nm) and infrared channel (1.1–1.7 μm). The infrared channel uses AOTF to reduce the mass of the instrument, with the spectral resolution of 0.5–1.2 nm. The optical system configuration and the appearance of the instrument are shown in Fig. 1. This instrument is mainly used to measure the water vapor in Mars’s atmosphere and to analyze the solar radiation spectrum reflected by surface and absorbed by the atmosphere [9]. The infrared imaging spectrometer on China’s first

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For dispersion imaging spectrometer working in push-broom mode, the incident beam is imaged at slit by a telescope, and the image at slit is dispersed by a dispersion spectrometer along the width direction of the slit and imaged on detector. The dispersion is accomplished by a prism or grating. Prism is not feasible to achieve a large field of view and a high spectral resolution, and the optical system can be longer and the volume of the instrument should be larger than grating spectrometer. Grating spectrometer has a higher spectral resolution and larger field of view. The visible and infrared mineralogical mapping spectrometer (OMEGA) launched on ESA Mars Express Orbiter in 2003 is a grating spectrometer working on 0.35–5.1 μm with the spectral resolution of 7–20 nm [11]. The optical system and the layout of the instrument are shown in Fig. 2. The Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) is launched on Rosetta comet probe in 2004, whose scientific goal is to study the properties of the solid, the gas composition, to measure surface temperature of the nucleus, to analyze the comet’s physical condition, and to help finding the best landing site. One channel is for spectral

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Interference imaging spectrometer is based on the principle of Michelson interferometer, as shown in Fig. 3. The beam emitted from a light source is collimated, and then split up into reflected beam and transmitted beam by a beamsplitter. The reflected part which is then reflected by a fixed mirror (M1) and transmits the beamsplitter meets the transmitted beam reflected by a moving mirror (M2). So the interference light is generated here and focused on detector, which is a function of optical path difference between the two beams generated by the motion of the moving mirror. The spectral image of the target is transformed into interferogram by the interferometer, which can be calculated by inverse Fourier transform of the interference determined by the detector; thus this kind of spectrometer is also called Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS). MINI-TES is a time-modulated FTS on “Spirit” and “Opportunity” Mars Exploration Rover (MER), covering the spectral range of 5–29 μm with the spectral resolution of 10 cm 1. The optical system of MINI-TES is shown in Fig. 4. The distribution image of the temperature and thermal emission of Mars’s surface is produced by IFFT of the time series interferogram of each pixel [13]. Fourier transform imaging spectrometer is quite suitable for infrared hyperspectral imaging with very high spectral resolution and medium spatial resolution, and more composition and thermal emission characteristics of the target with lower temperature can be determined with wider spectral coverage by FTS. A stable and reliable design for the adaption to space environment should be considered more seriously for FTS because of its moving mechanism. Based on the above analysis, according to the requirements of different missions, scientific objectives, and resource allocation, different spectrophotometric schemes are selected for the imaging spectrometer of deep space exploration. The spectral coverage

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3 Spectral Detection of Small Solar System Bodies Humans’ 244 deep space exploration missions have almost covered all kinds of celestial bodies in the solar system, such as the moon, the seven planets and their satellites, dwarf planets, asteroids, and comets. According to the exploration frequency of the past 20 years, the hot spots of planetary science research in the present and future are the Mars, asteroids, and the moon. At the same time, as the moon and Mars explorations boom, the asteroid exploration also gets people’s attention. The exploration missions have developed from the early close flight to low-altitude orbital exploration, and to the recent soft landing and sample return of asteroids. Asteroids are objects that orbit the sun but are too small to be called planets. There are about 2000 asteroids larger than 1 km in diameter, about 300,000 larger than 100 m in diameter, which are the planetary bodies formed 460 million years ago, containing a large amount of information on early formation and evolution of the solar system. The mineral content and distribution data of asteroid surface are the preconditions for the study of asteroid geological evolution, the origin of life, and the exploitation and utilization of asteroid resources in the future. Some information such as exact orbital data and basic physical properties have been known by optical and radar observations from the ground. A lot of physical, chemical characteristics and mineral properties have been known by studying meteorites, the counterpart of the asteroids. Restricted by the detection accuracy and limitation of the methods, only some physical parameters of large asteroids can be measured from the ground, but the observation for those whose diameter are below sub kilometer is difficult. Through asteroids explorations,

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The main purposes of spectrum detection of asteroids are to obtain the mineral types and their distribution on the surface, to study the water-related minerals and their distribution, to analyze the composition and content of minerals in low temperature area, to collect the distribution data of the rocks and soils on the surface, and to select the landing sites based on all these data. 1. To obtain spectral information of asteroid surface for minerals and water ice detection. Due to the obvious absorption features in infrared spectrum, minerals compositions and water-bearing materials can be identified by detecting the spectral information of asteroid surface. These include: to collect the information of past/ present life activity by identifying rocks and soils on the surface of asteroids; to study the formation process of water by identifying the specific mineral types, including carbonate, sulfate, phyllosilicate, evaporite, and phosphate; and to search for minerals that can be used as a result of biological evolution, such as manganese dioxide and carbonate. 2. To analyze the surface hardness of asteroids, serving the selection of landing sites. The firmness or looseness of the soil of the area studied can be analyzed by using different spectral features of different type of materials on the asteroid surface, and of the substances with the same composition but different hardness. Therefore whether the area on the asteroid’s surface is suitable for landing or walking can be decided by surveying of the composition and distribution of the rocks and soils. 3.2

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Being rich in water ice and other volatile matters and located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, main belt comets are probably the bodies bringing water to early earth. Since it was found at the beginning of twentieth century, main belt comets have aroused great interest in planetary science, and become the important candidate for the target of future orbital detection mission. To understand the characteristics, sources, and distributions of all kinds of volatile matters including water ice carried by main belt comet, the key parameters, such as surface composition and its distribution and productivity, should be measured quantitatively. The main scientific objectives are: to find out the activity caused by surface impact and understand the physical mechanism of various processes of material loss of small bodies; to find out complex organic compounds in the nucleus and identify their composition; to determine the types, composition, and shape feature of various kinds of ice on the main belt comet; to understand the evolution of asteroid-like and comet-like bodies by determining the surface geology and mineral structure and distribution information; and to determine the composition and nature of silicate minerals on the surface of main belt comet.

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4 Design of Visible and Infrared Imaging Spectrometer for Small Solar System Bodies Detection Visible and infrared imaging spectrometer has become a kind of necessary payload for material composition detection of deep space exploration mission. On account of its wide spectra coverage, high spatial resolution, and high spectral resolution, this kind of spectrometer have been employed on Cassini, Mar Express, Rosetta, Venus Express, Dawn, and many other deep space exploration missions. The small solar system bodies’ exploration mission will complete the flying off, landing, sampling of a near-earth asteroid and flying around a comet, and returning to the earth. The mission for the spectrometer is to investigate the surface minerals in detail, to analyze the hardness of the surface, to choose the landing site, and to determine the composition of the main belt comet. Based on these mission requirements, the spectrometer will cover visible to MWIR band, with hyperspectral imaging ability and high sensitivity, and its structure should be very compact to meet the requirement of low mass and small volume design for deep space exploration payload. 4.1

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The spectral characteristics, the “spectral fingerprint” of each substance, are the most effective and common means to identify minerals. At present, the spectral range of most imaging spectrometers for mineral detection is 0.4–2.5 μm. According to the experience of previous asteroid detection missions, expanding to MWIR band is more advantageous to distinguish the minerals having similar spectral absorption lines in visible to short wave infrared (SWIR) band, thus some new minerals can be discovered. On the other hand, considering the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) would be reduced by the noise produced by thermal emission signal of optical-mechanical structure, the long wave edge of the spectrometer is set to be 5 μm. According to the analysis of several mineral samples in the lab, the spectral sampling interval should be smaller for the substance whose spectral curve has some shallow absorption features, otherwise the spectral features can’t be detected in the spectral signal of the instrument, or the position of the absorption feature will drift, which will influence the accuracy of the mineral identification. For minerals that have similar spectral characteristics and whose spectral absorption lines are very close, the spectral resolution should be higher to improve the recognition rate of different minerals in similar rocks. At present, the understanding of the asteroids is limited. To identify more extraterrestrial minerals and find new types of minerals, the spectral resolution of the spectrometer should be higher. And considering the spectral range of the asteroid detection spectrometer and technical development level, the recommended spectral resolution is 5–10 nm. The spectrometers for asteroid detection mission are usually carried on the orbiter, detecting the asteroid at a distance. For this kind of instrument, the design of the spatial resolution should consider the detection distance and the size of the asteroid. For bodies of small diameter, the material distribution of the surface should be measured with high

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spatial resolution. And for the bodies that the probe flies by, the instrument of high spatial resolution would be advantageous because of the long detecting distance. Based on all these reasons, the instantaneous field of view (IFOV) of the spectrometer is set to 0.1 mrad, corresponding to the spatial resolution of 0.5 m at a distance of 5 km. The observation radiance of visible and infrared spectrometer is dependent on the albedo of asteroid and the observation angle relationship between the asteroid and the sun. The albedo is 0.13 according to NASA’s near-earth body observation plan, and the albedo of comet is about 0.05 or lower. For infrared band, the asteroid’s surface temperature is generally acknowledged to be about 200 K or lower. Thermal emission is mainly considered in MWIR band, and the energy detected in SWIR includes both reflected solar radiance and thermal emission radiance from target itself. The SNR of the previous deep space detection spectrometers is generally no less than 100, which can meet most scientific objectives. Therefore, the spectrometer for asteroid and comet detection should realize the SNR of better than 100 under the condition of low reflectivity and low temperature of the observation target. 4.2

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1. Wide spectral coverage and compact design of the spectrometer There are many unknown factors about the composition detection of small bodies, and scientists do not have experience data of the mineral types and its spectrum curves. More detailed science data can be obtained by the spectrometer with wider spectral coverage and higher spectral resolution for the identification and determination of substances compositions. Visible and infrared imaging spectrometer should cover from visible to medium wave infrared band, thus channel division, grating design, and manufacturing are harder than traditional instruments. The optical system design should guarantee the performance with a very compact layout to meet the requirement of low mass and small volume of the deep space exploration payloads. By using a grating integrating the visible and infrared bands, folding the optical path, and other methods, the optical system can be very compact with few optical components, and can realize high grating diffraction efficiency, small spectral distortion, and good imaging quality. The optical system with all reflected mirrors is composed of a shafer telescope and an offner spectrometer, which covers all spectral ranges with one optical system without correction lens, dichroic plate, and objective lens. The weight and volume can be strongly reduced by this design, as shown in Fig. 5. The division of visible and infrared bands is realized by one grating with different groove densities in different regions, as shown in Fig. 6. 2. High sensitivity spectral imaging technology The detected energy of each spectral channels of the spectrometer is very weak, due to the very low reflectivity and temperature of the deep space detection target, the small IFOV and dispersion principle of the spectrometer of high spatial resolution and high spectral resolution. Thus the requirement of the sensitivity of the instrument should be very strict. For the spectrometer working at MWIR band of 5 μm, the dark current noise of the detector should be reduced, and the noise produced by thermal

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A Novel Optical System of On-Axis Three Mirror Based on Micron-Scale Detector Jianing Hu1(*), Xiaoyong Wang1, and Ningjuan Ruan1 1

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Abstract. With the demand of higher resolution and much greater pixel density by aerospace remote sensing, a micron-scale detector is produced at the right moment. Normally, the detector pixel size of space remote sensing camera is over 6 μm with the Nyquist Frequency less than 100 lp/mm. This chapter employs only 1.4 μm pixel size with the Nyquist Frequency over 357 lp/mm. It is the first time that such a small pixel is used for visible light. The optical system is in need of a high standard and sophisticated optical design. Firstly, investigate the development of the small pixel size detector. Secondly, the effect of pixel size on optical and detection system is analyzed. Besides, the design of a novel optical system with a large aperture on-axis three mirror with small F Number is presented. The primary mirror and tertiary mirror are ready for integration of a single substrate. This novel system has the advantages of shortening the total length. This system can not only decrease the complexity of manufacturing but also enhance the quality of remote sensing images. The resulting system works at 0.4–0.7 μm which operates less than F/2 with a 300 mm pupil and over a 2.2  2.2 diagonal full field of view. The MTF value is above 0.25 at 357 lp/ mm. Keywords: Space remote sensing · Micron-scale detector · Small pixel · On-axis three mirror · Optical design

1 Introduction Pixel is the smallest element of an image. The smaller a pixel, the higher the resolution of an image is. Large-scale pixel means that the image is full of prodigious amounts of information. With the development of electro-optical imaging system, the pixel war is becoming increasingly fierce. The research of getting higher resolution images in fields of space exploration, national defense technology, disaster monitoring and geological survey has been becoming a hot issue. Normally, there are four different methods to obtain 100 million pixels images [1]: detector stitching, single shot stitching, multi-shot stitching and multi-scale gaze stitching. Each method has its disadvantages. It is difficult for detector stitching to achieve seamless splicing which leads to dead zone. Considering the time delay, single shot stitching is not the first choice. Though multi-shot stitching solves the problem of time delay, it costs a lot and wastes too much space. Multi-scale © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 H. P. Urbach, Q. Yu (eds.), 5th International Symposium of Space Optical Instruments and Applications, Springer Proceedings in Physics 232, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27300-2_16

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gaze stitching is limited by glass material. In order to acquire higher resolution images and solve the above-mentioned problems, it’s extremely urgent to apply micron-scale detector on space remote sensing camera. It’s already mature for small pixel size detector to apply on camera lens and cell phones. The continuous development of photoelectric detector promotes the pixel size from 5.6 μm in 2004 to 1.4 μm in 2012 [2]. Now the smallest pixel size is only 0.9 μm. But in space remote sensing cameras, the pixel size is still bigger than 6 μm, because applying small pixel will cause many problems in areas of optical system design, fabrication and assembly tolerance and camera testing. It’s totally different between SLR lens and space remote sensing cameras. In space remote sensing, not only are small pixels used but they are also combined with large aperture lens. In order to match small pixels, optical system needs to use small F Number. However, using small F Number optical system gives rise to a lot of problems in optical design, especially in aperture aberration. This chapter discusses optical system design for space remote sensing camera by using the 1.4 μm pixel size detector, a micron-scale detector.

2 The Development and Application of Small Pixel Size Detector Photoelectric converter, capable of sampling the target and transforming optical signal to electrical signal, is the core device of photoelectric detector. It puts many light sensors together and forms a group for semiconductor element. Each light senor is called a pixel. Pixel is the smallest element of an image. The smaller a pixel, the smaller the GSD (Ground Sampled Distance) is. On the contrary, a smaller pixel leads to decline in SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio), MTF (Modulation Transfer Function) and the field of view per pixel. Small pixel size detector has low sensitivity. Each pixel receives less light energy which means it’s hard for small pixel size detector to obtain satisfactory images. The smaller pixel corresponds to the higher sample frequency. It requests optical system to establish strict quality standards. The demand for optical system to achieve higher quality images at higher Nyquist Frequency. Image sensor size is related to optical system performance. As a result, when designing a system, the designer should consider the pixel size in different parameter indexes and performance specifications. 2.1

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The advanced CMOS manufacturing technology makes the size of detector pixel decreased from 5.6 to 0.9 μm. Then, the phone’s pixel has a rapid growth from 300 thousand to 24 million. Nowadays, the pioneer cell phones, iPhone, design 12 million-pixel lenses, while some Chinese brands design the 24 million pixels front camera. It has seen a huge amount of technological advances over the last decade. Especially dedicated to how to make pixel size smaller. In the aspect of small pixel size and largescale pixel, SONY, Samsung and Omnivision are the leading brands in the area of imaging sensors (Tables 1 and 2).

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It’s already mature for small pixel size detector to apply on cell phones, camera lens and industrial cameras. Nonetheless, it’s unable to apply them on sub-small pixel on space remote sensing cameras. For instance, sensing area and saturation signal still need to improve, which makes the MTF and SNR hard to reach a high level. Improving the ability to manufacture image sensors and optical design is necessary. Generally, the pixel size used on space-borne high-resolution remote sensing cameras is bigger than 7 μm, because there is a wide gap between sub-small pixel detector and CCD or CMOS on SNR, dynamic range, sensitivity, quantum efficiency and saturation signal, which is applied on space technology. In recent years, as the commercial remote sensing satellites are developing fast, more and more micro–nano satellites use small pixels in order to lose their weight with less cost (Fig. 1). In overseas countries, researches are ongoing to reduce the pixel size of infrared detectors. Study shows that reducing pixel size contributes to lose weight and save space of system. The pixel size of long-wave infrared system has been reduced from over 20 to 12 μm. There are middle infrared detectors whose pixel size is only 8 μm. It’s said that DRS, an American company, dedicates itself to studying on 5 μm pixel size long-wave infrared cameras supported by DARPA, another American company. They aim to a further progress on losing weight and saving space with less cost.

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Fig. 1 The comparison of different pixel size long-wave infrared system on weight and size [5] Table 3 The comparison between big pixel size detector and small pixel size detector Index Resolution Maximum date rate Pixel size Frame rate Saturation signal Quantum efficiency Dynamic range

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2.2.1 Space Remote Sensing Small pixel size detector has the great advantages of small GSD. Small pixel size detector has larger-scale pixel with certain detector dimension. According to the feature, small pixel size detector can be applied on high-

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resolution imaging system and high earth orbit observation. When the GSD is given, compared with big pixel size detector, small pixel size detector can take advantage of it to reduce focal length and make remote sensing camera light and miniature. Low earth orbit observation system could adopt the technology of push-broom TDI or starring imaging with the purpose of obtaining high-resolution images, improving the skill of data acquisition, saving cost of multi-satellite network, providing global coverage supporting a lot of services easily. In terms of high earth orbits, small pixel size detector will be mainly used on starring imaging and video observation. The accuracy will be improved greatly. Nowadays, the weight of 20 m resolution CCD camera on Geostationary Orbit is 1200 kg. Not only would this help lose satellites’ weight greatly, realize multi-satellite network cost less and global starring imaging by using small pixel size detector but also could be applied in battlefield control, hot spot patrol, target search, and real-time tracking. 2.2.2 Star Sensor Small pixel size detector can be used for star sensors that are applied on locating stars and providing satellites attitude data to spacecraft. Star sensing belongs to observations of spot object. Spot object shapes into a dispersed spot by the diffraction. For purpose of star extraction by using 3  3 or 5  5 pixels. If the CCD pixel size was 10 μm, dispersed spot size would need 30 μm  30 μm at least. Using small pixel size detector enables reducing the size of dispersed spot in order to extremely reduce star sensor F Number. Small pixel size detector has the advantages of reducing focal length with certain aperture. It makes star sensors compact-sized, light and miniature. Installation of more star sensors on satellite platform improves measurement accuracy.

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5 Conclusion This chapter introduces the development and application of the small pixel size detectors in every detail. This chapter researches the development level of image sensor and the application of small pixel size detector in space remote sensing. It’s not hard to see that more and more small pixel size detectors are used on space remote sensing cameras. The study indicates that small pixels contribute to shorten total length, lose camera weight, make size reduction and let cost down. This chapter compares two different pixel size image sensors. The result shows that small pixel size detector is already close to or even better than the big pixel size detector on some performance parameters. In the future, small pixel size detector will play an important role in the area of space remote sensing. The change of pixel size causes the change of image quality. MTF is the most essential criteria of the imaging system in some way. Taking space remote sensing camera into account, model and analyse the pixel size impact on optical system and detection system. The research shows that the smaller pixel size, the higher value of detection system, the lower value of optical system MTF. In consequence, when designing an optical system, in order to gain a high-quality image, it needs to match detection system. There is no doubt that small pixel gives rise to huge difficulties to optical design on performance of Nyquist frequency, aberration correction and out of focus. This chapter designs a novel optical system based on on-axis three mirror that overcomes difficulties which small pixels cause. Its novelty is that primary mirror is tangent to the tertiary mirror. It makes the optical system lighter and more miniature. This novel optical system meets the requirement of applying the micron-scale detector. Micron-scale detectors have sub-small pixels and ultrahigh sampling frequency. It may capture more details in an image. The novel optical system of on-axis three mirror based on micron-scale detector felicitously solves problems of a large aperture optical system with small F Number bring in. This chapter has proved its viability on futuristic space remote sensing camera.

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Abstract. Spectral imaging is an emerging tool for a variety of scientific and engineering applications because of the additional information it provides about the nature of the materials being imaged. Snapshot spectral imaging has great advantages over traditional imaging systems in the acquisition of data. Some examples of such systems are the computed tomographic imaging spectrometer (CTIS) and the coded aperture snapshot spectral imager (CASSI). Both instruments are based on computational imaging, which do not directly capture the image of the target. Another class of snapshot spectral imaging systems provides all spatial-spectral information on a single or multiple CCD image sensors with a one-to-one correspondence between datacube voxels and detector pixels. Integral field spectrometry with faceted mirrors (IFS-M), integral field spectrometry with coherent fiber bundles (IFS-F), and image mapping spectrometer (IMS) are all typical examples. In IFS-M, the two-dimensional field of interest is optically divided into small samples that are re-imaged at the entrance plane of the spectrograph. It has the characteristics of low spatial resolution. IFS-F uses a reformatter fiber optics to map a 2D image to a linear array that serves as an input slit to an imaging spectrometer. Its drawback with the use of fibers is that it is quite difficult to be coupled with light efficiently. So part of the light energy will be lost when entering the fiber. The micromirror array is IMS’s core component. It consists of a series of long and narrow mirrors and split and map the image onto the detector image plane. The reflective nature of the micromirror array and use of prisms for spectral dispersion provide the system with a high light collection capacity. In addition, its spatial resolution is higher than IFS-M. A designed snapshot spectral camera based on IMS is given in this chapter. The system with operation wavelength range from 400 nm to 900 nm, focal ratio of 15, and spectral resolution of 14.29 nm is designed, and the design results are analyzed and evaluated. It achieves a good imaging quality. It is expected to be applied to remote sensing. Keywords: Snapshot spectral camera · Micromirror array · Spectral imaging

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4 Conclusion The optical system design of the snapshot spectral camera based on micromirror arrays is discussed. The telephoto objective takes two separate and the imager uses Amici prism to obtain spectrum. The MTF of the system are all above 0.4 at the spatial frequency of 34 lp/mm. The designed snapshot spectral camera is suitable for detecting and measuring energetic targets in real time. Moreover, the snapshot will be very applicable to remote sensing platforms. Acknowledgments This work was supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFB05500501-02) and the project of the Priority Academic Program Development (PAPD) of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.

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Design, Manufacturing and Evaluation of Grazing Incidence X-Ray Optics Fuchang Zuo1(*), Loulou Deng1, Haili Zhang1, Zhengxin Lv1, and Yueming Li1 1

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Abstract. On November 10, 2016, the pulsar navigation test satellite 01 (XPNAV01) was launched in Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, and has currently obtained a lot of observation data. At present, the payload has obtained a huge amount of observation data, and the flux, spectrum, and profile of the target observed are obtained as well. High consistency with the observation data by other missions such as RXTE is shown. The function and performance of China’s first grazing incidence X-ray optics onboard XPNAV-01 was verified in-orbit. The design of the X-ray optics was carried out according to the requirements of the mission to obtain parameters of each layer of mirror and relationship between adjacent mirrors, and four-layer optics was designed. Focusing analysis was then implemented to optimize the parameters and evaluate the performance of the optics. The mirrors were fabricated by electroformed Ni replication, and roughness and reflectivity were tested. The results show that the performance of mirror meets the requirements. Finally, the effective area of the optics was evaluated based on the in-orbit data to verify the design and fabrication, providing guidance and laying foundation for the development of X-ray optics with larger effective area and better angular resolution. Keywords: Multilayer nested · Grazing incidence · Optics · Manufacturing and test · Performance evaluation

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Fabrication of the Partition Multiplexing Convex Grating Quan Liu1,2(*), Peiliang Guo1, and Jianhong Wu1,2 1

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Abstract. Visible-shortwave infrared imaging spectrometers for deep space exploration need to meet the requirements of wide spectrum coverage, high spectral resolution and miniaturization. This chapter explores the achievement of higher and more consistent diffraction efficiency of the partition multiplexing convex grating in the visible-shortwave infrared (0.4–2.5 μm). The investigation of the diffraction efficiency indicates that when the two blaze angles of the convex grating, one between 5.6 and 6.5 and the other between 16.5 and 17.5 , the first-order diffraction efficiency would be over 25% at the visible-shortwave infrared band. The partition multiplexing convex grating with 408 L/mm, a curvature radius of 51.64 mm, an aperture of 30 mm, with the two blaze angles 6.3 and 17.3 , respectively, and the two antiblaze angles 66 and 56 , has been fabricated by holographic lithography— segmented scan ion beam etching. Keywords: Convex grating · Partition multiplexing grating · Holographic lithography · Ion beam etching · Diffraction efficiency

1 Introduction Hyperspectral imaging spectrometers are radiation sensors that provide a collection of spectral images of an inhomogeneous scene. This allows the spectral signature for each object point to be determined. Application areas include forestry, geology, agriculture, medicine, security, manufacturing, colorimetry, oceanography, ecology and others [1–3]. The Offner imaging spectrometer, which is often adopted in hyperspectral spectrometers overweights others used in pushbroom imaging spectrometry because of its advantages like low chromatic aberrations, a compact size with low optical distortion, and large numerical aperture [4, 5]. The convex grating is one of the key parts in Offner-type hyperspectral spectrometers. Visible-shortwave infrared imaging spectrometers for deep space exploration need to meet the requirements of wide spectrum coverage, high spectral resolution and miniaturization. However, the achievement of the high diffraction efficiency of the © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 H. P. Urbach, Q. Yu (eds.), 5th International Symposium of Space Optical Instruments and Applications, Springer Proceedings in Physics 232, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27300-2_19

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convex grating is still a big challenge, especially in the visible-shortwave infrared broadband. Therefore the partition multiplexing convex gratings are suggested, which means splitting the grating area and blazing each region at a different wavelength. In 2009, NASA launched TacSat-3, whose hyperspectral imaging system ARTEMIS [6] used a double-angled blazed grating with a spectrum ranging from 0.4 to 2.5 μm. In this chapter, the partition multiplexing convex grating has been designed to obtain higher and more uniform diffraction efficiency in the visible-shortwave infrared (0.4–2.5 μm). The study concludes that the control of the two partition blaze angles of the partition multiplexing convex grating ensures that the first-order diffraction efficiency can be over 25% within the wavelength from 0.4 to 2.5 μm.

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3 Fabrication A diagrammatic sketch of fabricating the partition multiplexing convex grating is shown in Fig. 4. Holographic exposure and development was employed for grating pattern generation. Finally, the partition multiplexing convex grating has been fabricated by titling ion beam etching with two different etching angles. According to LIU Quan et al. [7], the convex grating mask with spatial frequency of 408 L/mm was produced by holographic exposure and development. The convex grating mask is presented in Fig. 5. We can see the depth of the mask was about 560 nm and its duty cycle was nearly 0.48. The convex grating mask pattern was transferred to the fused silica substrate by segmented scan ion beam etching. A portion of the area A convex grating is shown in Fig. 6. A portion of the area B convex grating is shown in Fig. 7. We can see that the two blaze angles were approximately 6.3 and 17.3 , respectively, and the two antiblaze

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Research on the Optimal Design of Heterodyne Technique Based on the InGaAs-PIN Photodiode Zongfeng Ma1(*), Ming Zhang1, and Panfeng Wu1 1

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Abstract. For coherent detection technology, strict matching is essential for the magnetic fields of the optical beam. A heterodyne system based on all fiber instruments using an InGaAs-PIN photodiode field effect transistor module as the photodetector is presented. The optimum detection of signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio for a coherent Doppler lidar (CDL) depends on local oscillator (LO) power. An approach for analyzing the SNR is introduced by taking into account the non-linearity of the photodetector. Results of our numerical simulations show that a suitable value of the LO power is essential to ensure better performance. Keywords: Times roman · Image area · Acronyms · References

1 Introduction Lidar is a system in which a beam of laser instead of microwave is used to make rangeresolved remote measurements. A lidar system transmits a beam of light, which interacts with the object to be detected. Some of this light is scattered back to the receiver, then some properties of the return light, such as frequency changing, amplitude, or polarization are detected. Compared with microwave radar, lidar can offer both high resolution and high precision due to considerably shorter carrier wavelength. In the last decade, lidar systems have been developed by many institutions. Two different types in lidar systems, the coherent lidar and incoherent lidar, can be used to determine the Doppler shift. Compared with incoherent detection, coherent detection provides robust shot-noise-limited detection. Specific advantages in this case include [1] (a) immunity to detector dark counts or amplifier noise, (b) immunity to background light, solar illumination, and other interference, and (c) resistance to countermeasures. In recent years, with the development of coherent optical fiber communication technology, there has been an increasing interest in the development of high pulse energy and high efficiency eye-safe coherent lidar. These coherent optical fiber technologies, such as narrow line-width laser sources, optical fiber amplifiers, and so on, can be applied to coherent lidar systems easily.

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Research on the Thermal Stability of Integrated C/SiC Structure in Space Camera Li Sun1(*), Hua Nian1, Zhiqing Song1, and Yusheng Ding2 1

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Abstract. C/SiC composite is one kind of the continuous fiber-reinforced ceramic composite (CFCC), with carbon fiber and SiC matrix. Due to its advantages such as specific stiffness, thermal stability, and the advantages of being able to form a complex structure in one piece, C/SiC has received wide attention in the aerospace field in recent years. In order to meet the high thermal stability requirements of the main bearing structure of space optical remote sensor, this chapter proposes an integrated main bearing structure scheme for an off-axis TMA space mapping camera. This structure is a frame-skin configuration, with an outer profile of 1.8 m  0.9 m  1.3 m and a weight of 110 kg. Different from the traditional split-type structure, this product adopts integral molding design, which reduces the weight and greatly improves the structural rigidity and the thermal stability. First, using carbon fiber cloth to make integrated preforms by three-dimensional weaving and stitching, then adding SiC matrix by chemical vapor infiltration (CVI). This chapter introduces the optimization design and FEA analysis method and manufacturing of the entire product. The chapter also introduces the thermal stability experiment. The product is wrapped by multilayer insulation components, and several temperature fields are applied through film resistance heater. The displacement and angle change of each mirror mounting interface are measured by laser dual-frequency interferometer. On analysis of the experimental data, the macroscopic coefficient of the product is found to be 0.73E6/ C, and the experiment results are in good agreement with the simulation analysis. This product can meet the requirements of thermal stability. Compared to conventional metal or resin-based composite materials, the C/SiC has great advantage. Keywords: C/SiC · Integrated structure · Thermal stability · Space camera

1 Introduction C/SiC composite is one kind of the continuous fiber-reinforced ceramic composite (CFCC), with carbon fiber and SiC matrix. In recent years, due to its high specific stiffness, high thermal stability, and the ability to integrate complex structures, the C/SiC has gained wide attention and supplication in spacecraft, especially space remote sensors. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 H. P. Urbach, Q. Yu (eds.), 5th International Symposium of Space Optical Instruments and Applications, Springer Proceedings in Physics 232, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27300-2_21

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C/SiC has been extensively researched at home and abroad as a mirror material and a support structure and has achieved certain results. Zhang Litong [1] prepared 2D C/SiC composites by modifying the matrix of C/SiC composites. Guo Youjun [2] prepared a 3D C/SiC ceramic matrix composite with fiber reinforcement in the thickness direction by CVI method, which showed good structural characteristics and excellent mechanical properties. Dalmaz [3] studied and analyzed the cyclic fatigue properties and elastic modulus of 2.5D C/SiC composites. Germany’s Donier Satellite Systems has prepared a space telescope main mirror with a diameter of 630 mm and a mass of only 4 kg [4]. German Aerospace Institute [5] prepared several C/SiC test pieces. The GF-2 satellite used C/SiC for the front barrel and achieved good results [6].

2 Structural Design and Optimization This chapter proposes an integrated main bearing structure scheme for a high-precision surveying and mapping space optical remote sensor. The remote sensor uses an off-axis three reflex optical system, and the main bearing structure provides a mounting interface for each mirror and the satellite. The outer contour size is 1.8 m  0.9 m  1.3 m, and the weight does not exceed 110 kg. The main mirror, the third mirror, and the focal plane are mounted on the rear frame, the second mirror and the flat mirror are mounted on the front frame, and the bottom is the connection point with the satellite. Since the mail loads are arranged on both sides of the structure, it adopts high-strength frames on both sides, and the structure of the skin and the ribs is connected in the middle. The weights of the main mirror, the third mirror, and the focal plane are heavier, so the rear frame stiffness is higher than front. The frame is slightly larger to ensure the rigidity of the entire structure. The front and rear frames are in the form of I-beams, which are closed to the outer panel and open to the inner panel for easy weaving and sintering. According to the optical temperature stability analysis, in order to meet the requirements of the interior orientation of element stability of the camera, the thermal expansion coefficient of the main frame is required to be lower than 1.5  106/ C. According to this requirement, the parameters such as the order, direction, and fiber volume content of the preform are optimized. The design value of the thermal expansion coefficient is 0.5  106/ C. Topology optimization and size optimization of each position of the ribs were carried out during the front and rear frame design. The optimization objectives and boundary conditions are as follows: Optimization goal: The front and back frame volume fraction is the smallest. Optimize boundary conditions: (a) The overall fundamental frequency is not lower than 120 Hz. (b) Under the action of 1 g gravity in the X direction, the displacement of each mirror in the X direction is not more than 5 μm. (c) In the direction of 1 g gravity in the Y direction, the displacement of each mirror in the Y direction is not more than 5 μm.

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4 Thermal Stability Test The main frame provides mounting reference for each mirror assembly and focal plane assembly. Therefore, it requires extremely high thermal stability to ensure the image quality and internal orientation element stability of the camera in an alternating temperature environment. Through reasonable ply optimization design, the thermal expansion coefficient in the optical axis direction is made as small as possible under the premise of ensuring mechanical properties. However, the C/SiC material itself has anisotropy, and the coefficient of thermal expansion is related to the direction of fiber weaving. There may be slight differences in fiber orientation and design value during the implementation of the weaving process. At the same time, large-scale structural parts also have a certain degree in matrix deposition and reaction sintering. In homogeneity, both cases may affect the uniformity of the thermal expansion coefficient of the material, which in turn affects its thermal stability. After the main frame was manufactured, a thermal stability test was conducted. The main frame of this test is installed on the air floating platform after installing three pieces of flexible support. The flexible support has the function of releasing thermal deformation and decoupling from the mounting surface. The outer surface of the main frame is pasted with a heating sheet and covered with a plurality of layers, and the tooling for mounting the test mirror and the main frame are thermally insulated. The test product and the test platform are installed by heat insulation through a heat insulation mat. Using the temperature control loop on the main frame, the temperature of the main frame is controlled, and the temperature of the test chamber is pulled upwards to establish a uniform temperature rise temperature condition and a temperature gradient condition, and the displacement and the direction change measured under each state are compared. For the analysis, the conclusion of the stability test is obtained. During the test, multiple high-precision laser dual-frequency interferometers (LDFI) and photoelectric autocollimators (PEAC) were used to monitor the deformation of the main frame (Table 1) (Fig. 7).

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The Application Study of Large Diameter, Thin-Wall Bearing on Long-Life Space-Borne Filter Wheel Yue Wang1,2(*), Heng Zhang2, Shiqi Li2, Zhenghang Xiao1, and Huili Jia1 1

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Abstract. An application study of the large diameter, thin-wall bearing on the longlife space-borne filter wheel is presented in this chapter. A precise bearing mounting method was introduced to provide the sufficient stiffness and the adequate operating accuracy. A flexure bearing axial preload method was optimized to ensure the on-orbit working life circle. A simulated environmental life test under vacuum was processed to verify the performance of the filter wheel. The Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and Energy Dispersion Spectrum (EDS) observations were performed to analyze the abrasion of the raceway of the thin-wall bearing, and a friction torque test and analysis was given. The test result shows that the filter wheel meets the 2.1  105 on-orbit life circles requirement with the application of sputtered MoS2 lubricant thin-wall bearing. The application method of the large diameter, thin-wall bearing presents the engineering solution references for the long-life space filter wheel design. Keywords: Thin-wall bearing · Long life · Filter wheel · Space-borne · Solid lubricant

1 Introduction To ensure the multispectral imaging requirement, the space-borne camera needs to operate with varying opto-mechanical devices on-orbit. Typical opto-mechanical devices include the focus mechanism, the calibration mechanism, the multispectral splitter mechanism, and the scanning mirror mechanism. Most of the mechanisms achieve their rolling operation by using ball bearings [1]. Generally, the ball bearings get lubricated by grease to ensure a long working life and a precise rolling status on ground. However, the on-orbit working environments of the space-borne cameras have characteristics of high vacuum, large temperature difference, high radiation, and long life requirement, etc. [2]. The traditional grease lubrication method cannot meet the space-borne camera application requirement. The solid lubrication materials such as graphite and molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) are well applied in substitution of grease lubrication in space missions [3–5]. The MoS2 dry film coating method is widely used in ball bearing lubrication. With this method, the ball bearings can easily meet the low © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 H. P. Urbach, Q. Yu (eds.), 5th International Symposium of Space Optical Instruments and Applications, Springer Proceedings in Physics 232, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27300-2_22

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working friction moment requirement as well as the low contamination working environment needed for the space remote sensing camera. The space remote sensing camera usually achieves its multispectral imaging function by using a series of optical filters. The filters usually adopt the rolling wheel method to achieve their switching in or out of light path. There are 18 filters with different spectral selection capabilities integrated in the MIRI cryogenic filter wheel of JWST. A brushless DC motor is adopted as the driving power resource of the filter wheel. The rotary wheel is mounted on a center shaft, and the center shaft and the DC motor are integrated by the angular contacted ball bearings with MoS2-coated lubrication [6]. The filter wheel and the grating wheel in the NIRSpec of JWST are designed with the same mounting method with the filter wheel in MIRI [7, 8]. The filter wheel mechanism design in Euclid camera incorporates a centrally driven titanium wheel disk that houses the four optical elements. The disk is driven by a brushless DC motor with the support of a duplex bearing pair [9]. The centrally supporting design concept has the potential of small diameter ball bearing application, and the operating friction moment can be maintained in a relative low level in cryogenic environment. However, this design concept leads to low structural stiffness of the filter wheel and complicated operating strategy of the mechanism. When the working environment of the mechanism is in ambient temperature environment and the quantity of the filter is large, the peripheral supporting design of the filter wheel mechanism with the application of the large diameter ball bearing can effectively improve the structural stiffness of the filter wheel mechanism. In this chapter, an application study of the large diameter, thin-wall bearing on the long-life space-borne filter wheel is presented. An appropriate bearing axial preload method was optimized to ensure the on-orbit working life circle. A simulated environmental life test under vacuum was processed to verify the performance of the filter wheel. The SEM and EDS observation is performed to analyze the abrasion of the raceway of the thin-wall bearing, and a friction torque test and analysis was given. The mechanical design process and the life test results of the large diameter, thin-wall bearing will be discussed in the next sections.

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The filter wheel disk needs to integrate five different spectral transmittance filters with the same external size of 96  96  12 mm3. As shown in Fig. 1, the design space of the filter wheel mechanism in optical axis dimension should be restricted in 65 mm, and the maximum out diameter of the filter wheel should be restricted in 363 mm. The filter wheel will be operated at an ambient temperature environment on-orbit. Figure 2 shows the mechanism of the filter wheel. The wheel is driven by a spur gear system with a gear ratio of 1/10.5. The power resource is the step motor. The small pinion is attached on the motor shaft. The large teeth ring is mounted onto the filter

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In the space-borne camera design application, the working environment of the solid lubricating bearings benefit from the stable working temperature and super clean environment of the optical components. The outer diameter of the filter wheel disk reaches 355 mm with the integration of five pieces of filter. With the light weight optimization design, the mass of the filter wheel disk is controlled to 5 kg. A typical large diameter, thin-wall ball bearing was selected to connect the filter wheel disk and the main structure. The bearing rings and balls are of same material brand 9Cr18. The cages are manufactured by polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). Sputtered MoS2 is applied on the balls and cages to form the solid lubrication film. The outer diameter of the bearing reaches 374.65 mm and its axial height is only 9.525 mm. The main parameters of the thin-wall bearing are listed in Table 2. The Hertzian contact theory is widely used to estimate the dynamic contact stress in the bearing [13]. Detailed descriptions of the Hertzian contact stress calculating

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5 Conclusion Based on the long on-orbit working life demand of the space-borne rolling filter wheel, an application of the large diameter, thin-wall bearing is presented in this chapter. A precise bearing mounting method was introduced to provide the sufficient stiffness and the adequate operating accuracy. A flexure bearing axial preload method was optimized to ensure the on-orbit working life circle. Based on the Weibull distribution theory, an accelerated life test under vacuum was designed. Two test prototypes of the rolling filter mechanisms finished the test. The SEM and EDS analysis were performed to analyze the abrasion of the raceway of the thin-wall bearing and a friction torque test and analysis was given. The test result shows that the filter wheel has a 2.1  105 on-orbit circles capability with the application of sputtered MoS2 lubricant thin-wall bearing. The application of the large diameter, thin-wall bearing presents the engineering solution references for the long-life space filter wheel design.

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A Step-by-Step Exact Measuring Angle Calibration Applicable for Multi-Detector Stitched Aerial Camera C. Zhong1(*), Z. M. Shang1, G. J. Wen1, X. Liu1, H. M. Wang1, and C. Li1 1

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Abstract. Nowadays in surveying and mapping applications, the requirement of aerial mapping camera with large image frame is increasing rapidly, for its advantages of great imaging efficiency. Because of difficulty in fabrication of single large detector, stitching of multiple detectors is an approach to constructing large format digital aerial cameras. Also, it is shown in practice that imagery created from multiple images acquired by multi-detector camera system can have similar metric quality, so this sort of camera system will stay in production. As a result, output from multicenter projected images acquired by multiple detectors to an equivalent single center projected virtual image is a core issue, where an accurate calibration is necessary. Exact measuring angle method is a common camera calibration method in the laboratory, and it is a very accurate method. It also performs well when dealing with calibration for long-focal length camera indoors, without limitation of imaging distance. However, it is not applicable to cameras of which the central area is not imaging. This chapter proposes a step-by-step calibration method. Step 1 is to calibrate the central area with traditional exact angle measurement. And step 2 is to establish the image point transformation according to the relative position of various detectors and hence accomplish the calibration of edge area using the result of central area. Through theoretical derivation and simulation, it proves that the proposed method is suitable for multi-detector stitching aerial camera, and it overcomes the shortcomings of impossible measurement for edge area. Also, measurements error caused by optical axis deviation and focal length inconsistency is considered, and its influence on focal length and principle point calculation is analyzed. By deriving the error propagation model of the proposed exact measuring angle method, the assembly accuracy of some key points in the camera system is estimated, which will be a key indicator of accuracy control during the process of camera system production. Keywords: Exact measuring angle · Calibration · Interior element · Accuracy

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projected image is an alternative way. In the progress of establishing single central projection from multiple projection, accurate image interior elements are needed[1–3]. Basically, image interior elements are measured and calculated by exact measuring angle [4–8] or 3D control field calibration. Accurate angle measurement is a laboratorycarried calibration method, which is highly accurate. However, the operating circumstance of the equipment is very strict and rather expensive to maintain; hence, this method is not popularly applied. 3D control field calibration method takes photos of control field which include many precisely measured 3D control points and calculates interior element based on multiple backward intersection. However, as image frame becomes large, the scale of control field becomes tremendously large as well, which increases the difficulty in establishing or maintaining. For multiple detector camera, some of the sub-cameras have a disadvantage that the central area of frame does not form image, which leads to failure of applying normal accurate angle measurement method. Based on these situations, this chapter introduces a step-by-step calibration method based on accurate angle measurement and analyzes the measuring accuracy for multiple-detector camera such as UCXp camera.

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Similarly, another two groups of experiments are performed. Results of changing focal length for edge detector experiments are shown in Fig. 9. In the condition of no distortion, the calculated result is precise. However, when distortion exists, both principle point and focal length have linear error with regard to focal length changes, and the maximum error is over 1 pixel size. It indicates that the variety of focal lengths is an important factor in influencing calibration results for edge detector. Results of principle point displacement for edge detector experiments are shown in Fig. 10. If no distortion exists, the curve of calculated result presents parabola, with maximum principle point coordinate error below 1/5 pixel size and focal length error below 1/2 pixel size. However, under the condition of lens distortion, both principle point and focal length have error over 1 pixel size. It indicates that the influence caused by principle point displacement is not ignorable.

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5 Conclusion This chapter introduces a step-by-step calibration method based on accurate angle measurement for multi-detector stitched camera. Analysis of calibration error is performed, which indicates that the displacement of optical axes (identically, principle points) will influence the result of focal length, and the variety of focal length will influence both the result of principle point coordinate and focal length. The calibrated

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Absolute Distance Interferometric Techniques Used in On-Orbit Metrology of Large-Scale Opto-Mechanical Structure Yun Wang1(*) and Xiaoyong Wang1 1

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Abstract. Optical misalignment caused by opto-mechanical structural deformation on account of null-gravity state and on-orbit unsteady-state temperature field becomes more serious with the increased sensor aperture. High-precision optical components distance metrology is demanded to meet the required optical accuracy in on-orbit alignment. Accuracy of submicron in absolute distance is needed, which is limited by the facts of space environment, implementation conditions, system running costs, etc. Aiming at engineering implementation, in this chapter, the researches of on-orbit laser interferometry absolute distance metrology of large-scale opto-mechanical structure were provided as follows: In terms of measuring method, the interferometric technique, double heterodyne interferometer, and its related technology branches are reasonable to acquire the required precision. The technical principle and feasibility was provided. This chapter matched the possible measuring range and the application range of the displacement. The mathematical solution based on the excess fractions was considered to be valuable in terms of an expanded measurement range without additional systematic costs. This chapter also analyzes the main error source. The error control method by means of control measure time was concluded. Keywords: Absolute distance metrology · Interferometric · Large-scale opto-mechanical structure

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without effective offset or efficient on-orbit focal length adjustment. Beside the step gravity unload, the moisture desorption of composite material would also lead to a long-term position change between mirrors and the related supporting structures, resulting in a more serious imaging quality deterioration. Moreover, the periodic variation caused by the illumination condition would affect the stability of the secondary mirror supporting pole. This thermal deformation would also lead to the tilt optical axis and decreases the positioning accuracy. Meanwhile, micro-vibration on the platform would bring in unpredictable influence to imaging quality, resulting in the image degradation. The factors which affect the image quality are getting more severe with the expanding aperture and resolution of the remote sensor. At the present stage, the solution to this problem is mainly based on the stimulation and ground-based experiments, e.g., the focal plane could be preset before launch based on the ground-based gravity unload experiments. On-orbit mission plan was settled by means of the defocus prediction of the deformation. Analysis of temperature influence by means of the thermal control and stimulation would be used for the data adjustment. However, all the adjustments mentioned above are built on the stimulation and prediction. The lack of the real-time position sensing would cause the failure of the adjustment. The performance of the high precise large aperture space camera calls for new requirements for the on-orbit real-time system. It is important to require the precise displacement between main optical components, so as to provide data for system control and analysis. The assessment indicated that the micro-meter accuracy within several millimeters in 30 m is required in a large aperture optical system. Laser interferometry, as the most precise distance measurement method, is widely used not only in industry, but also, in several international collaborate programs, i.e., stellar detection, dark material detection and gravity wave detection, etc. The feasibility of this method is widely acceptable. Laser interferometry and its related branches lead to a high performance of the position and altitude measurement, followed by the precise position sensing. Laser interferometry is the key to the success of the projects mentioned above. Based on the stimulation and experiments, it is indicated that the space environment is relatively stable in vibration, and disturbance is simplified, which is possible for the laser interferometers to work stably. Followed by compensation and temperature stabilization, it is indicated that the theory possibility of the space laser interferometry is highly acceptable. This chapter represented the research and feasibility study of absolute distance metrology in use of large aperture optical structures on orbit. The precise metrology method adapted to the large optical components measurement is provided followed by the summarized analyses of the technologies of laser interferometry metrology. It is represented in this chapter that, by means of the double-wavelength double heterodyne interferometry system, followed by proper wavelength setting and adjustment, it is suitable to meet the requirement of the large aperture on orbit real-time remote sensing system.

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2 Theory of Absolute Metrology and Laser Heterodyne The requirement of absolute metrology is widely existed in space programs. From angstrom-thick length sensing to precise distance metrology of several kilometers between spacecrafts [1]. The absolute displacement metrology is distinguished from related displacement metrology by definition. Absolute displacement metrology is the measure process which could be pause and traced back. Since there is inherent contradiction between long measure range and precise accuracy, therefore, in the aspect of error analysis, the continuous high accuracy measurement of a specific range is also considered as absolute metrology. There are two sorts of absolute metrology methods based on laser interferometry, i.e., time-of-flight, a non-coherent measurement method, and optical interferometry, a coherent measurement, respectively. The method of time-of-flight is limited by the detector, causing a relatively low accuracy. For example, a measurement of distance L ¼ cτ 2 , with c is speed of light and τ is time of flight. Limited by the bandwidth of the detector with a resolution of 3 ps, an accuracy of 1 mm could be acquired with this method [2]. Laser interferometry, tracing with the wavelength of the laser, is known as the most accurate metrology method. This method takes Michelson interferometry as the theoretical basis and the light wavelength as the scale, so as to sense the deviation of the distance by measuring the phase difference of the reference arm and the measurement ϕ λ, where arm. The displacement could be considered as the function of phase, i.e., L ¼ 2π λ is period as 2π, 0  ϕ < 2π; therefore, the distance L is measured as follows: L¼

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3 Realistic Feasibility In theory, the heterodyne method could provide a scale of any length, which is not the case in engineering implementation. Several restrictions are indicated. For instance, the larger frequency difference requires smaller frequency difference, which requires a critical accurate calibration standard for laser. Therefore, the preciseness of calibration is restricted by the laser itself. Moreover, the accuracy of the same electrical circuit would be decreased with a larger frequency difference. The cascade would fail when the stage accuracy exceeds the required half wavelength ambiguity of the followed stage. In a large aperture system, the measurement should balance the large baseline (30 m) and high measurement accuracy (micro or sub-micro). There are four conditions to accomplish a high precise metrology system. Firstly, the coherent length of the laser should be longer than the displacement of interest to avoid the integer ambiguity. Secondly, the accuracy of the laser should meet the requirement of the measurement accuracy. Then, the combination of synthetic wavelength and phase resolution should accomplish the requirement of the accuracy. Last but not least, the high accuracy of the synthetic wavelength is cruel. It is not easy to accomplish all the four conditions in one heterodyne interferometer. A double-wavelength double heterodyne interferometer system should be a partial solution to the question above. Two heterodyne frequencies are settled in this system, with a wide frequency system of GHz used to decide the cycle error and accomplish the coarse measurement, while the narrow frequency system is used for the fine measurement by measuring phase difference. The system is designed as follows: Two heterodyne frequencies, linked up with each other, were provided in this system to create both the coarse and find measurement. Similar to the traditional Michelson interferometer system, the measurement was acquired by comparing the relative phase difference of both the reference arm and measurement arm. In order to eliminate disturbance of the environment, it is designed in this system that the reference light and measurement light could pass the common path in the highest degree. In the coarse stage, two single-frequency laser sources were chosen, and the frequencies are locked by each other. Ref. [4, 5] provided a solution with the laser source of Lightwave 2000 LOLA, which could lock the frequency difference to 15 GHz. Following this stage, AOMs are applied to accomplish high accuracy optical frequency switch. In this way, a high speed optical frequency was applied to accomplish a stable frequency difference, so as to require a coarse frequency signal. A fine frequency adjustment was followed using two laser sources from the former stage. A small frequency could be acquired frequency difference of around 100 kHz, and fine phase measurement was acquired in this method.

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stimulation. There is not enough data to evaluate the relate displacement for the on-orbit system. Moreover, even if there were on-orbit data for the existed system, there could be slight difference on the system design, material, and operation environment, which might cause failure for the required system. Once the measurement range exceeds the synthetic wavelength, the measurement accuracy could not be guaranteed. It may cause a failure on the measurement. A larger synthetic wavelength means a higher reliability on measurement range. However, due to the calculation method, the accuracy could be lower. In order to expand measurement range without lost accuracy, the mathematics method based on excess fractions was provided in our system. The theory of excess fractions provided a solution to calculate the result when the measurement range is larger than the synthetic wavelength. By analysis of a wavelength series and the related fractions, an expanded range could be acquired and a heterodyne wavelength could be acquired. By this means, under mathematics calculation, the measurement range could be expanded without adequate priori knowledge. 4.2

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5 Summary The requirement on the distance of optical components metrology was improving with the expanding aperture in a large-scale optical system. It is indicated that this high precise metrology is important for the followed system control an adjustment. Based on the analysis and comparison, it is provided in this chapter that it is achievable to acquire the aim by means of double heterodyne interferometer system. Aiming at the measure range, it is provided that the calculation based on excess fractions could solve the problem. The main error analysis was provided, and the increased measure speed would solve the problem. Acknowledgments The work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2016YFB0500802).

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Development and On-Orbit Test for Sub-Arcsec Star Camera Yun-hua Zong1(*), Jing-jing Di1, Yan Wang1, Yu-ning Ren1, Wei-zhi Wang1, Yujie Tang2, and Jian Li2 1

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Abstract. Firstly some main parameters of the star camera are designed by analysis to achieve high pointing accuracy, and then some important steps are described. A high-precision assembly and test system for this star camera are constructed in this chapter. Many measurement images are acquired by on-axis and off-axis star camera imaging test which are implemented with long focal length collimator’s image plane moving. The optimal focal plane position of this star camera is determined by a surface fitting method. The distribution character of the imaging points in the central and edge views is considered in this method. The sub-arcsec pointing accuracy is verified by test in orbit. The measurement result is consistent with the design value finally. Keywords: Design · High-precision star camera · In orbit

1 Introduction The measurement accuracy of satellite attitude is the main factor to affect the geolocation accuracy. A high-accuracy measuring equipment is more important when without control point. At present, the accuracies of some foreign-made star cameras are better than 1", but they are embargoed to our country. There is no star camera on the track, the precision of which is 1" at home, So it is urgent and significant to develop a high-accuracy star camera, to get high-precision direction measurement, and to improve the accuracy of image location finally, which is installed integratively and isothermally with optical remote sensing camera, working synchronously with the camera on the track [1–3].

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Considering the influence of thermal vacuum environment, the focal plane will be pre-set at the vacuum position before satellite launching. The star camera and a static star simulator are fixed on the same platform. This platform is put into the vacuum tank, when focal plane vacuum position of the star camera is calibrated. In the test process the temperature will be seriously controlled at 20  C in order to keep the performances of the static star simulator stable. Experimentation state is shown in Fig. 4. The result of quaternion error of the star camera is gained by enough test data, the test result is shown in Table 2, and the focal plane vacuum position’s correctness is verified through test in the simulative vacuum environment. 3.4

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Opto-Mechanical Assembly and Analysis of Imaging Spectrometer Quan Zhang1,2(*), Xin Li1, and Xiaobing Zheng1 1

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Abstract. The imaging spectrometer developed by ourselves was introduced. The design of the optical machine and the adjustment of the optical machine were discussed. The results of the spectral test were analyzed. The instrument’s spectral range is 400–1050 nm, and its optomechanical part is mainly composed of hood, instrument frame, imaging system, spectroscopic system and detection system. According to the design requirements, an off-axis three-reverse imaging system was adopted, and a single aspherical mirror system was selected through MTF test comparison analysis. The Offner spectroscopic system was chosen considering factors such as image quality and compactness. The detection system uses a surface array CCD camera. The assembly test of each component system of the optical machine part was carried out separately. Finally, the instrument was tested by mercury argon lamp. The test results show that the spectral resolution of the imaging spectrometer is less than 7 nm, which is better than the design index of 10 nm, which has achieved the expected goal. It also verifies the rationality of design of the optical machine and the adjustment of the optical machine. Keywords: ISSOIA 2018 · Opto-mechanical assembly · Imaging spectrometer · Spectral analysis

1 Introduction The direction, extent, and speed of climate change are one of the major scientific and political issues affecting human survival and development. Satellite observations of climate change have long-term, large-scale and high-aging natural advantages. Only satellite observations are accurate enough to establish an uncontested climate record, measure whether and how the climate is changing, and establish a climate model for long-term trend prediction. At present, the accuracy and stability of satellite observations are far from sufficient to meet the requirements of measuring long-term changes, and even produce controversial observations [1]. Among the internationally agreed principles of climate observation, “precision accuracy and long-term stability of observations through high-precision calibration” is one of the most important technical requirements. It must be independent, shared and © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 H. P. Urbach, Q. Yu (eds.), 5th International Symposium of Space Optical Instruments and Applications, Springer Proceedings in Physics 232, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27300-2_26

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traceable to the International System of Units (SI). The spatial radiation reference, with cross-calibration as the basic means, provides regular radiation/spectral calibration and observational verification of operational observation satellites using a global calibration field network [2, 3]. In order to explore and verify the high-precision calibration technology for satellite observation, the United States has begun to implement the CLARREO (Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory) program and listed it as one of the top four missions in Decadal Survey Missions [1]. CLARREO’s important task of providing a permanent benchmark for global climate records and establishing corresponding observing standards is of great importance for understanding and predicting the global climate and reducing uncertainty. The University of Colorado is committed to solving the highprecision hyperspectral imaging technology of the near-infrared band of visible light and expects to achieve 0.2% of the accuracy of SI traceability. In the solar spectral band, CLARREO uses a hyperspectral imager to directly observe the sun, and the on-orbit reference to a stable solar source calibration; in cross-calibration, the hyperspectral imager simultaneously observes the ground target with the traffic load and traces the output of the to-be-calibrated load to International System of Units SI [4–6]. The spectral range of the loads in the CLARREO project is 320–2300 nm, and the spectral resolution is 8 nm. At present, Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of CAS and Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics of CAS are carrying out relevant technical research. Our research group takes the research of imaging spectrometer technology in the visible near-infrared band as a breakthrough. Based on the accumulation of the whole process calibration technology in recent years, an elementary prototype of imaging spectrometer with spectral resolution better than 10 nm will be developed to lay the foundation of the subsequent imager on short-wave infrared band. The instrument will eventually be used to obtain high-precision continuous subdivision spectral radiance of the atmosphere system to provide long-term stable radiation data for climate monitoring research. And as a reference load, it can be used to cross calibrate other loads in orbit to improve the accuracy and long-term consistency of operational loads in orbit.

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The high-quality imaging spectrometer optical system must have the advantages of large line field of view, large relative aperture, wide spectral imaging, small size, and light weight, so the off-axis three-reverse imaging system is adopted [9, 10]. With the traditional multi-spherical mirror system, the imaging quality can reach the diffraction limit. However, due to the aspherical surface used and the aspherical amount of each aspheric surface is not very small, it is necessary to develop a high-precision compensator. The use of a single aspheric mirror system has reduced the cost and difficulty of development. Through the comparison and analysis of MTF test results, a single aspheric mirror system is finally selected. As shown in Fig. 3, it is a schematic diagram of a light path and a three-dimensional simulation of a single aspheric mirror system. 3.3

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The effective focal length measurement is measured on the optical test systemtransponder according to the nodal method principle. The wavelength of the illumination source is 650 nm, and the focal length measurement is averaged after multiple measurements to obtain the focal length of the CCD camera lens. The effective focal length design value is 84.00 mm, the measured value is 86.63 mm, and the focal length error is 3%. 4.2

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The MTF of the lens is measured by the Optest optical test system, and the illumination source is respectively a 650 nm red light source. The lens MTF curve obtained by the test is shown in Fig. 6a. The measurement error of the MTF is not more than 0.03. It can be seen from the figure that the MTF is greater than 0.7 at the Nyquist frequency and has a higher transfer function value to meet the design requirements. The on-axis star points obtained during the MTF test are shown in Fig. 6b. 4.3

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The rear working distance of the lens is defined as the vertical distance from the mounting surface of the slit member to the focal plane. Accurate measurement of the back working distance is especially important for accurate installation of the slit. The post-operating distance measurement is measured by the Optest optical test system, and the collimator produces collimated light collimated into the lens. The test optical path diagram is shown in Fig. 7. Firstly, use the microscope to align the slit mounting plane and adjust the clarity. Read and record the microscope guide position parameter A, then use the microscope to image the star point, adjust to the focal plane position, read and record the microscope-guided position parameter B. The difference of parameter A and B is the working distance behind the lens. The three groups were averaged to obtain a post working distance of 3.25 mm.

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7 Conclusion The imaging spectrometer adopts the off-axis three-reverse system as the imaging system, the Offner form as the spectroscopic system and the surface array CCD camera as the detection system. The assembly test of each component system of the optical machine part was carried out separately. Finally, the instrument was tested by mercury argon lamp. The test results show that the spectral resolution of the imaging spectrometer is less than 7 nm, which is better than the design index of 10 nm, which has achieved the expected goal. It also verifies the rationality of design of the optical machine and the adjustment of the optical machine.

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An Optimized Method of Target Tracking Based on Correlation Matching and Kalman Filter Mingdao Xu1(*) and Liang Zhao1 1

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Abstract. Correlation matching is an easy method for target image tracking. But global searching is large amounts of calculation, and target will be lost when shaded. The combining use of correlation matching and Kalman filter will predict a possible position in the next frame which reduces the calculation time and prevents from losing target. In this paper, this combined algorithm is improved by using a self-updated matching template and a self-adapted detecting window. This method can well overcome the disturbing by spinning, scaling, or transforming of the target and indeterminacy of movement. Because of these advantages, this algorithm can be used in target tracking system on spacecraft. Keywords: Target tracking · Correlation matching · Kalman filter · Self-updated template · Self-adapted window

1 Introduction Along with the development of space imaging realm, the request for intelligence and credibility of target tracking is higher and higher. Correlation matching is one of many tracking algorithms which are good at: no request for high image quality, adapting complicated target or background, and strong anti-interference ability [1–3]. The theory of Kalman filter gives us a state space method in time field, which introduces conception of state variable and state space [4]. This text improves these two algorithms by using a self-updated matching template and a self-adapted detecting window.

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3 Algorithms Improving and Implementation The algorithm combined correlation matching and Kalman filter flows like this: Get target template by initial target, initialize detecting window to current target position, and set detecting window to a sure value that is larger than the target. Calculate correlation using Eq. 5; if the max correlation is more than the threshold, then the max correlation position is the matched position. Use this matched position to correct Kalman filter as measurement value; if correlation is less than the threshold which means matching is failed, then make the predict position as matched position. Then, go to Kalman filter predicting phase, calculate the next time predict position using transfer matrix, and define the detecting window to predict position. The essential algorithm flow is as Fig. 1: Thinking of object’s spinning, scaling, shape changing, and movement, we need to improve the algorithm. The traditional Kalman filter only updates template content update and realizes more stable and accurate tracking by updating local template or using initial template combined with updating template at the same time. The size of template and the size of detection window have not changed. When the size of target changes due to motion, matching error may be caused by the target is too big to be contained in the template, or too much background content of the target in template, which will eventually lead to the failure of target tracking. So firstly we scale up and down the template to two new templates. Then we calculate the correlation using these three templates, which correlation is the biggest is the successful matching. If the successful matching template is the scaled one, that means the object scaled. At the mean time, we use the sub image that is at the successful matching position as next template. So the improved algorithm can adapt to the object’s changing. We use this equation to scale up or down the template:

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Design and Verification of Micro-Vibration Isolator for a CMG Yongqiang Hu1(*), Zhenwei Feng1, Jiang Qin1, Fang Yang1, and Jian Zhao1 1

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Abstract. Control moment gyros (CMGs) are widely used for attitude control to get high agility. However, CMGs produce undesirable micro-vibration disturbance during its on-orbit operation, which is one of the main sources of micro-vibration. The passive-type isolators have generally been employed to attenuate the micro-vibration transmitted to optical payloads on account of the advantage of simplicity, low cost, and high reliability. In this article, the number and dynamic parameter of isolator was optimized and verified. Firstly, the theoretical model was established to select stiffness and damping coefficient elementarily. Secondly, the number and the material of isolators are designed. Finally, the function and performance was verified by microvibration test and vibration test and other test. After optimization, the standard deviations of displacement on the bracket of CMG have reduced significantly. The results show that the efficiency of the optimized isolator is more than 80%. The isolator has good performance on 100 and 60 Hz and other main disturbance frequency of the CMG. Keywords: Micro-vibration · CMG · Isolator · Parameters optimization

1 Introduction Micro-vibration has become a critical factor for image quality as to high-resolution satellites [1]. Considering current abilities of designing, manufacturing and testing, mounting an isolator for the disturbance is the most feasible way [2]. There are four kinds of isolation techniques for isolation: passive, active, active-passive hybrid, and semi-active isolation. The passive-type isolators have generally been employed in space application on account of their advantages of simplicity, low cost, and high reliability to achieve desired isolation performance [3–7]. The CMG produces undesirable micro-vibration disturbance during its on-orbit operation, which is one of the main sources of degradation of the image quality of high-resolution observation satellites. In this article, the theoretical model and FEM model were established to select stiffness and damping coefficient elementarily, and the number and the material of isolators are designed and verified by micro-vibration test and vibration test and other test.

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Development of a High-Frame-Rate CCD for Lightning Mapping Imager on FY-4 T. D. Wang1(*), C. L. Liu1, and N. M. Liao1 1

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Abstract. A high-frame-rate charge-coupled device (CCD) capable of operating at 500 frames per second (fps) was designed and prototyped. It has a 400  300 split frame transfer CCD area array with 26 μm  26 μm photosensitive elements and 420 ke full well capacity. The device was originally developed for the Lightning Mapping Imager (LMI) on China’s latest and most powerful weather satellite FengYun-4 (FY-4). It has a total area array of 408 (H )  304 (V ) with dark elements, where eight outputs are settled on two sides of the device. The active photosensitive area is about 11.3 mm  11.3 mm. According to its feature of high dynamic range and 2 ms frame period (which nearly equals to the duration of a single lightning event), the Lightning Mapping Imager can map total lightning activity on the Chinese and surrounding territory continuously day and night. This will facilitate forecasting severe thunderstorms and typhoon activity, and convective weather impacts on aviation safety and efficiency. Keywords: High frame rate · Charge-coupled device · Lightning Mapping Imager · FengYun-4

1 Introduction The first weather satellite of China’s most powerful second-generation three-axis stabilized, geostationary meteorological satellite series named FengYun-4 (FY-4-01) was successfully launched by a Long March-3B rocket at Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan province on December 11, 2016. It is an important milestone for the development of weather satellites in China [1]. FY-4-01 carried four advanced instruments, namely, Advanced Geosynchronous Radiation Imager (AGRI), Geosynchronous Interferometric Infrared Sounder (GIIRS), Lightning Mapping Imager (LMI) and Space Environment Package (SEP). The LMI is China’s first lightning detection component on weather satellites, which is designed and prototyped for mapping total lightning activity on the Chinese and surrounding territory continuously day and night. The data and images acquired by LMI will be used in forecasting and warning of convection precipitation, and studying of the Earth’s electric field [2].

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4 Summary The heart of the LMI instrument in FY-4-01 is a high-frame-rate (500 frames per second), 400  300 pixel focal plane, integrated with low-noise electronics and specialized optics to detect weak signals of total lightning activities on the Chinese and surrounding territory continuously day and night. It can measure lightning activities in real time. The images and data will be employed by meteorologists to forecast severe weather, storm tracks and convection precipitation. A long-term data record will also permit scientific studies including an examination of the Earth’s electric field. A pair of 400  300 pixel split-frame transfer CCDs are arranged in the LMI to reach the required spatial coverage over the Chinese and surrounding territory, watching over a ground area of 9000 km (diagonal field of view).

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Evaluation of GF-4 Satellite Multispectral Image Quality Enhancement Based on Super Resolution Enhancement Method Wei Wu1(*), Wei Liu2, and Dianzhong Wang2 1

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Abstract. GF-4 satellite is the world’s first high-resolution geostationary Earth observation satellite, which has broad application prospects in disaster prevention and relief, natural resource surveys, and atmospheric environmental monitoring. In order to improve the target recognition and classification capabilities by using GF-4 satellite image, the super-resolution reconstruction method is adopted. In this chapter, the GF-4 image quality enhancement software based on contour-consistent image super-resolution enhancement method is used to enhance the spatial resolution of GF-4 satellite PMS image. Under the condition of the same spatial resolution enhancement capability, the number of suitable image frames needed for multiframe image super-resolution enhancement is analyzed quantitatively by selecting multiple evaluation indexes. Maximum likelihood classification method is used to classify land cover using GF-4 satellite resolution enhancement image and original image, respectively. Classification map of GF-1 satellite WFV image with 16 m resolution in the same classification method is used as reference data to evaluate the classification accuracy of GF-4 satellite images. Taking Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province as an experimental area, nine high-frequency imaging GF-4 satellite PMS images are selected for experiments. The experimental results show that with the increase of the number of GF-4 satellite PMS images participating in super-resolution enhancement, the radiation performance of the image after super-resolution enhancement presents an overall improvement trend. In addition, the GF-4 satellite PMS image after super-resolution enhancement not only improves the spatial resolution, but also improves the visual effect of the image. Combined with the characteristics of GF-4 satellite image and the geographical situation of Kunshan City, the land cover type is divided into residential land, water body, and vegetation. The classification results show that the overall accuracy of the classification based on the GF-4 satellite superresolution enhanced image is higher than that based on the single-frame GF-4 satellite image. Keywords: GF-4 · Super resolution reconstruction · Land classification · Image quality evaluation

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1 Introduction Since the successful launch of the GF-4 satellite on December 29, 2015, it has been successfully in orbit for 3 years and accumulated a lot of observation data of China. GF-4 satellite is the first earth synchronous orbit high resolution optical imaging satellite in the world, which is mainly used for comprehensive disaster prevention and mitigation, meteorological warning and forecasting, forest resource survey, desertification monitoring, environmental governance, and other fields [1]. With the characteristics of GF-4 spectrum and fast imaging, some achievements in satellite application have been achieved. Reference [2] analyzed the effect of water body extraction based on GF-4 satellite data. Taking the Dongting Lake area of Hunan Province as an example, it is found that GF-4 satellite imagery has good information extraction ability of wetland type [3]. Reference [4] evaluated the application ability of GF-4 satellite imagery in drought disaster monitoring. Reference [5] analyzed the identification ability of flaming, smoke, and burned scar in different combustion status during forest fire based on GF-4 satellite images. However, the high-frequency continuous imaging advantages of the GF-4 satellite have not been effectively utilized in practical applications. Through the experiment, reference [6] found that after super-resolution reconstruction of GF-4 satellite images, satellite images with higher resolution can be obtained while maintaining clarity and information details. Using the staring imaging features of GF-4 satellite, this chapter analyzes the effect of the number of continuous imaging images on the enhancement of image quality after super-resolution reconstruction. The classification of land cover based on super resolution enhancement is carried out, and the classification effect of the image after super resolution enhancement is evaluated, and a technical scheme for fully mining the application ability of GF-4 satellite is provided.

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5 Conclusion In conclusion, a novel fusion method combined with SRF of multispectral image and panchromatic image based on IHS and wavelet transform is proposed. The fusion criterion in HF coefficient and LF coefficient are described in detail. Experimental results show that the proposed fusion method is more effective than the other fusion methods. This method is hopeful for realizing the goal to reduce the spectral information distortion to maximum on the basis of improving spatial resolution.

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Remote Sensing Image Mixed Noise Denoising with Noise Parameter Estimation Mutian Wang1(*), Sijie Zhao1, Xun Cao1, Tao Yue1, and Xuemei Hu1 1

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Abstract. Images acquired by optical remote sensing often suffer from noise, due to low-light conditions and long distances from the object. Noise introduces undesirable effects such as artifacts, unrealistic edges, unseen lines and corners, blurred objects and disturbed background scenes, and decreasing the performance of visual and computational analysis. The great majority of denoising methods only focus on single noise type, and mostly assume additive Gaussian white noise. However, in practice, according to the different sources of noise during the capturing process, the real image noise may be composed of noises from several different distributions, i.e., Poisson distribution from shot noise and dark current, Gaussian distribution from readout noise, etc. Thus, it is hard to model complex noise with a single noise model, which therefore limits the practical performance of image denoiser for real captured images. To address this problem, we propose a deep residual network with parameter estimation to model and remove mixed noises of remote sensing data, with no noise type and noise level information. In this chapter, a deep convolutional neural network based framework is proposed to implement both noise estimation and noise removing. The framework is composed of noise estimator module and denoiser module. The noise estimator module is used to estimate the noise distribution characteristics of the input image, which are used to synthesize the noisy dataset for the training of the denoiser module. After training, the denoiser module can then denoise the input image specifically for that noise characteristic of the input image. Besides, we use some advanced designment to improve the performance of the network like residual learning, skip connections, and perceptual loss. Our model works for both given noise types and others without taking into account in training process, and for the latter case we test the model on the noise mixed with different types, i.e., shot noise, Gaussian noise, salt and pepper noise, speckle noise, dark current, and quantization noise, covering most of the common noise types in practical situation. The estimated noise distribution according to the proposed estimator is compared with the ground truth to validate the performance of the estimator. We also compare the proposed method with the existing denoising methods, including both the traditional algorithm (i.e., BM3D (Dabov et al., IEEE Trans Image Process 16:2080–2095, 2007)) and the deep neural network (i.e., DnCNN (Zhang et al., IEEE Trans Image Process 26:3142–3155, 2017)). Experimental results showed that our method outperforms these state-of-the-art methods in both PSNR (peak signal to noise ratio) and SSIM (structural similarity index). Keywords: Remote sensing image · Mixed noise denoising · Noise level · Convolutional neural network

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1 Introduction Images acquired by optical remote sensing data often suffer from noise during acquisition and transmission. Noise introduces undesirable effects, degrading performance of later visual and computational analysis, such as image classification [1], target detection [2], and environment monitoring [3]. Therefore, the denoising task on remote sensing data has arisen as an important and also a tough issue, where various kinds of noise with different levels may be introduced into images. In the past decades, many denoising algorithms have been proposed. In [4], wavelet techniques are explored to filter speckle noise of microwave remote sensing images. Song et al. [5] presents a weighted double sparsity unidirectional variation (WDSUV) model to reduce stripe noise in remote sensing images. Recently, many neural networks [6–8] have achieved superior performance on image processing tasks, as well. However, most of these methods are designed on a certain type of noise, and assumptions on statistical property of noise are usually required to get better performance. In this chapter, we propose a deep residual network with parameter estimation (DRN-PE) to deal with various types of noise from remote sensing images. We use three typical types of noise, Poisson noise, additive Gaussian white noise, and salt and pepper noise, to represent the noise of target image. Estimator, the network stacked with convolutional neural layers and densely connected layers, is utilized to evaluate the level of these three noise. The estimator is connected to a denoiser, where we train another network targeting on this specific mixed noise removal. In this process, we successfully achieve denoising task without extra information of noise distribution, let alone explicit statistical characteristics. We notice that the model also works on other types of noise not appeared during training. A given combination of noise might share similarities in statistical properties with mixed noise type in training process, allowing the best combination of noise to be chosen by the estimator. Experiments demonstrate that our model outperforms traditional methods like BM3D and also deep learning methods like DnCNN. In particular, we make the following contributions: 1. We propose a neural network based estimator to handle complex noise emerged with certain basic types of noise in real cases. 2. We propose a deep neural network architecture suitable for remote sensing image denoising tasks, with skip connections, residual learning, and perceptual loss to boost the accuracy of the output image. 3. The combined estimator-denoiser model succeeds in removing noise from input image with unknown noise type and noise level.

2 Related Work In the field of image denoising, numerous approaches have been proposed. Traditional methods such as total variation (TV) [9, 10], BM3D algorithm [11] and dictionary learning based methods [12] have shown good performance on image restoration topics

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like image denoising and super-resolution. Yuan et al. [13] extended the TV model to solve hyperspectral image denoising problem and also gained good performance. Although some of the proposed traditional models have achieved big progress, further improvement is still needed in this area. Deep neural network (DNN) based methods have a great potential for image restoration tasks and remain active in recent years. Xie et al. [6] had succeeded at removing noise from corrupted images with the stacked sparse denoising autoencoder (SSDA). Other neural network-based methods such as plain multi-layer perceptron (MLP), provided by Burger et al. [14], also get attractive performance in mapping noisy patches onto noise-free ones. They also concluded that with large networks and large training data, neural networks can achieve state-of-the-art image denoising performance. Zhang et al. [7] proposed feed-forward denoising convolutional neural networks (DnCNNs) to tackle with denoising tasks, with residual learning and batch normalization utilized to speed up the training process and boost performance. Mao et al. [8] added symmetric skip connections in a very deep convolutional encoder-decoder network and gained higher PSNR and SSIM. In the denoising task of remote sensing image, deep learning method seems not so active. Zhang et al. [15] utilized the L1∕2-regularized deconvolution network for the restoration and denoising of RS images, acquiring improved result of the L1-regularized deconvolution network. But most of the methods proposed before only focus on a single type of noise and need a statistical prior of noise information to get better performance. Our proposed model eliminates the need to determine noise type beforehand, let alone its statistical characteristics.

3 Algorithm In this section, we present the proposed DRN-PE network in details. Figure 1 shows the illustration of the whole process.

Fig. 1 Architect of our proposed model. The estimator is used to simulate noise from single input image in order to synthesize noisy images, which are then fed to the denoiser as dataset for end-to-end training. The blue arrow is for training process, and the black dotted lines represent actual application using pre-trained model

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For the network architecture design, we modify the VGG network [16] to make it suitable for parameter estimation. Following the principle in [16], we adopt 3  3 filter size and replace maxpooling layer with convolutional layer with strides, which decreases the size of feature and retains the detail of input at the same time. We set the depth of convolutional layers as 14 to gain a wide enough receptive field for input patches. Three densely connected layers are arranged next to convolutional layers to map hidden layers into several variables expected as parameters for given types of noise. Dropout is used to deal with overfitting problem by preventing units from co-adapting too much [17]. For the given types of noise used in training, we choose Poisson noise, additive Gaussian white noise and salt & pepper noise. For Poisson noise, the image is divided by λ prior to applying the noise; the result is then multiplied by λ. Actually there is no need for the network to learn the exact values of parameters, but to use given noise types to model unknown input noise. In Sect. 4 we use parameters to generate fake noisy image, and draw histograms of noise distribution to test the similarity between fake noise and actual noise. 3.2

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clean one. In the model DnCNNs [7] and RED-Net [8], the strategy is also exploited for image restoration tasks, and both of them gain very good performance. 2. Skip connections. Skip connections [8] is also used for retaining detail information of image. By assuming that detail information is generally lost in a straightforward network, we extract feature maps in the front layers and add them to corresponding hidden layers to maintain detail information of input. At the same time, skip connections also benefit on back-propagating the gradient to bottom layers, which makes training deep network much easier. 3. Perceptual loss. During training process, we notice that even though pixel-wise loss function tends to get higher PSNR performance, the image seems smooth and some detail information missed. Perceptual loss [19], however, might address this problem. A pre-trained loss network (VGG-16) is utilized to measure high-level perceptual differences. It has been demonstrated that the use of perceptual loss often generates visually pleasing results by better reconstructing fine details and edges.

5 Experiments For each coming noisy image, we send it into the pre-trained parameters estimator to gain the noise description, then the output parameters are transmitted to a specific denoiser, which is trained using the dataset generated according to this specific noise. Practically, both the generated noise images and the clean ones are sent into the denoiser for training. 5.1

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We use WHU-RS19 [20] dataset both for parameters estimation and denoising. The dataset collects satellite images exported from Google Earth2, which provides highresolution satellite images up to 0.5 m. It contains 1005 meaningful scenes in highresolution satellite imagery with 600  600 pixels each. Since there is no testing remote sensing dataset for image restoration task, we simply divide 38 images from WHU-RS19 for testing, extracting two randomly from each class. Notice that these extracted images won’t appear in training process. For training the parameter estimator, we set batch size as 16, each contains an input with size 128  128, cut from a randomly chose image at randomly chose locations. The output parameters and input image are transmitted to the denoiser, with batch size as 32 including 64  64–size image cut at each. 5.2

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We test the performance of our model on noise composed of given noise types (i.e., Poisson, Gaussian, Salt & Pepper) only and other types of noise which are not taken into consideration in the training process (e.g., speckle noise).

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Results on noise with given noise types We generate four kinds of mixed noise using given noise types in the training process with random parameters. We use the aforementioned 38 images for testing and gain average results for each noise type. The denoising results are shown in Table 1. We use BM3D and DnCNN at the specific Gaussian variance for comparison. Figure 2 offers an example from mixed noise 1. We also extract parameters estimation results in Table 2, but notice that there is no need to output exact parameters, but use mixed noise to describe the distribution of given noise. Results on noise with untrained noise types Our model also succeeds on the noisy images with the untrained noise types. For this part, we consider several noise types that are common in practice in addition to Poisson noise (shot noise), Gaussian noise, salt and pepper noise. Speckle noise, often inherently existing in remote sensing images, can be expressed as I0 ¼ I + I  n, where n follows a uniform distribution. We use variance of n to denote the level of speckle noise. Quantization noise is expressed as a uniform distribution ranging from 0.5 to 0.5, and we use ρ to denote the density of that noise. Dark current is also in our consideration.

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We design three kinds of mixed noise composed of six common noise types, e.g., shot noise, Gaussian noise, salt and pepper noise, speckle noise, dark current, and quantization noise, as described in Table 3, the denoising result is shown in Table 4, and one example from mixed noise 6 is offered in Fig. 3. To validate the accuracy of parameters estimation result, we use it to generate fake image from clean one, and draw the histogram of noise distribution to show the similarity. Noise distributions of actual noisy image and fake image are compared as shown in Fig. 4.

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Fig. 4 Noise distribution of actual noisy image and fake image, and every one pair from mixed noise 5 and 6, two pairs from mixed noise 7 from left to right, up to down

6 Conclusion In this chapter, a deep convolutional neural network is proposed for image denoising to tackle mixed noise with unknown types, also without prior statistical properties. Residual learning is adopted to remove noise from input images. Skip connections and residual learning are integrated to speed up the training process as well as retain more detail information. Perceptual loss is utilized to boost visual performance. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed network achieves better performance than DnCNNs and BM3D. Moreover, we presented similarity of noise distribution for both estimator and ground truth to approve the feasibility of our network. In future, we will investigate other neural networks and focus on other general image restoration tasks. Acknowledgments This work was partially supported by NSFC Projects 61671236, and National Science Foundation for Young Scholar of Jiangsu Province, China (Grant No. BK20160634), and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (Grant No. 0210-14380067).

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Research on Infrared Image Quality Improvement Based on Ground Compensation Xiaofei Qu1(*), Xiangyang Lin2, and Mu Li1 1

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Abstract. Due to the non-linear response of the infrared load device in the low-temperature region, the stripes, appeared in the low-temperature region of the infrared image, will seriously deteriorate the image quality and quantitative retrieval accuracy of the infrared remote sensing image. The existing methods based on the calibration parameters on the infrared remote sensing satellite can’t solve the stripe problem caused by the non-linear response. Therefore, the compensation by means of ground to improve the quality of infrared images is particularly urgent. This paper deeply analysed the generation mechanism of satellite infrared camera load inhomogeneity and studied two improved stripe removal algorithms based on Kalman filtering and moment matching in view of the shortcomings of the traditional method in removing stripes. First of all, this paper introduces the advantages of Kalman filtering noise processing and the deficiencies of the algorithm in image processing. Then, a method based on Kalman filtering is proposed to improve the radiation quality of infrared images. Secondly, aiming at the problem of “Banding effect” in traditional moment matching, a one-dimensional moving window was proposed to segment the image to protect the image detail information, and we also propose a method to enhance the radiation quality of moment matched infrared images based on adaptive moving window weighted column average compensation. Through the actual data processing, the improved two methods could effectively eliminate the stripes in the image, improve the target temperature inversion accuracy in a variety of complex scenes, and enhance the visual effect of the image. Moreover, the accuracy of temperature inversion of targets in various complex scenarios is also improved, which will greatly improve the quantitative availability of infrared remote sensing data. Keywords: Ground compensation · Infrared image · Banding effect · Kalman filter · Moment matched

1 Introduction Infrared imaging can sense the target’s infrared spectrum information and can be used for night-time imaging. Because on-satellite calibration requires the detector to be linear, the detector cannot guarantee linearity at the high- and low-temperature critical values, and the detector element will produce a nonlinear response, which lead to the fringes not being able to be eliminated. Especially in the low-temperature area of infrared images, © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 H. P. Urbach, Q. Yu (eds.), 5th International Symposium of Space Optical Instruments and Applications, Springer Proceedings in Physics 232, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27300-2_34

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the phenomenon of deep and shallow stripes is very obvious, which seriously reduces the image quality and quantitative inversion accuracy of infrared remote sensing images [1]. Existing methods based on on-satellite calibration parameters cannot solve this nonlinearity-induced fringe problem. Therefore, it is particularly urgent to improve the quality of infrared images through ground compensation methods. Domestic and foreign methods for non-uniformity correction can be divided into two categories: one is a calibration-based correction algorithm, and the other is a scenebased non-uniformity correction algorithm. At present, a large amount of research works at home and abroad focus on scene-based non-uniformity correction techniques and have proposed a variety of scene-based non-uniformity correction methods, i.e., Kalman filtering method, moment matching method, wavelet transform method [2], Fourier transform method, and so on. This article mainly focuses on two of them, the Kalman filtering method and the moment matching method. Current Kalman filtering and moment matching methods have certain advantages in removing the fringe problem. In large engineering applications, the linear model is still used for Kalman filtering radiation correction. However, the detector response characteristics are actually nonlinear. Obviously, if the linear model is still used at this time, the nonlinearity will introduce a larger error to the non-uniformity correction and reduce the non-uniformity correction performance [3]. The reference column mean and reference column standard deviation used for standard moment matching are the average values of the mean and column standard deviation of all the columns in the entire image [4]. This results in a certain degree of grayscale distortion and weakened texture information. When the ground object type is complex, it usually produces a “ribbon effect”. According to the appeal problem, by analyzing the mechanism of the inhomogeneity of infrared camera image data, the improved methods of these two technologies are proposed. Experimental image calibration results of qualitative and quantitative analysis illustrate the advantages of the two methods, for subsequent research and application, and image characteristics of an appropriate selection of nonuniformity correction methods provide a reference. Unlike optical imaging, the infrared strip elimination does not affect the entire image information [5], because the strip itself is caused by radiation distortion, and strip elimination is a means of compensating for radiation distortion.

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equations and the state equation, which uses the derived gain and offset to achieve non-uniform correction. Assume that the detector obeys the linear response model. In the time block k, the response of the detection unit in the n-th frame image is expressed as Y k ðnÞ ¼ Ak T k ðnÞ þ Bk þ V k ðnÞ

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4 Conclusion This chapter proposed an SVM-based method for cloud detection of satellite image. The GLCM and RIULBP are calculated in sub-images and combined as a new feature for the training of SVM classifier. The trained SVM classifier identifies the sub-image as cloud or not. A dataset for cloud detection based on real satellite images was built in this

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An Oversampling Enhancement Method of the Terahertz Image Zhi Zhang1,2(*), Xu-Ling Lin1, Jian-Bing Zhang3, and Hong-Yan He1 1

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Abstract. Terahertz imaging is new trend of space optical remote sensing detection field. However, the resolution of Terahertz imaging is limited by the manufacture level of the Terahertz detector. In this paper we present the image processing method based Terahertz oversampling system. The multi-frames of observing same region are collected by our Terahertz imaging system. The shift displacement between adjacent frames is sub-pixel on the horizontal and vertical direction. The multi-frames are filtered by the norm constraint and enhancement. The higher resolution grid is reconstructed after the staggered frames are achieved. It shows that background noise is constrained and target edge is more continuous by the proposed method. The evaluation index of image quality is raised, which means that proposed method is better than other conventional method. The detail information of processed image is enhanced. The proposed oversampling method is special for dim target and background clutter data such as terahertz and infrared image, combining with the p2 norm optimization and bilateral filtering. Keywords: Terahertz imaging · Oversampling · Remote sensing image · Filtering · Space optics

1 Introduction Over the years, Terahertz wave (THz) is a hot research region since it is put forward. It is very important for space optical remote sensing of the upper atmosphere [1], industrial inspection, security, and so on. There are some bottlenecks for terahertz application, such as low resolution and bad definition [2, 3]. The hardware level is limited on the existing conditions [4, 5]. An oversampling technic is adopted here to meet high resolution need [6].

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2 The Proposed Method There is a rigorous geometric topological mapping relationship between object minimum resolution size and on-board imaging system resolution [7]. Super-resolution might be a useful and popular way to raise the resolution of space optical imaging system, such as SPOT5 super mode and the European MSG (Meteosat Second Generation) diamond sampling [8–10]. The result is that resolution of the imaging system being significantly raised. In this paper, the enhancement method is proposed to improve the system performance, using the oversampling method. Firstly, the mathematical model [11] of the terahertz system is usually expressed as followed. F ðm, nÞ ¼ Sðm, nÞ  psf þ N

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3 Experiment and Analysis The experiment is carried out on the platform TAS7400TS from the Advantest Corporation. The frequency range of the system is 0.5~7 THz. The imaging result is shown as Fig. 1a. Here, the ‘10’ sample is put on the THz transmit imaging platform. The four frames are obtained in the experiment, which shifts half a pixel between each other on the vertical and horizontal directions. It shows that the number ‘10’ is blurred and faint in Fig. 1a. The image is seriously degraded by noise that edge of ‘10’ is not continuous. The main factors is temperature variation and detector noise fluctuation. There is amount of block-like noise around object, which is called as the background fluctuation effect. Figure 1b is processed result by POCS (Projection Onto Convent Sets) method, and Fig. 1c is processed result by IBP (Iterative Back Projection) method. Obviously, the noise is reduced, and edge is more continuous. Figure 1d is a processed result by the proposed method, which has high contrast, clear object and continuous edge. There is not the block noise on the image and background (Table 1). Figure 2a is shown as the target imaging result on the experiment. There are eight frames LR THz images, which shifts sub-pixel (shifting distance is 0.1~0.25 pixels) between each other on the vertical and horizontal directions. Figure 2b is a processed result by the POCS method, and Fig. 2c is a processed result by the IBP method. It is shown that the block-like noise disappears and the object edge is clear in Fig. 2d. As seen in the reconstructed images and the comparison, the proposed method could do a better job visually and photometric-wise (Table 2).

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Band Selection for Hyperspectral Data Based on Clustering and Genetic Algorithm Gaojin Wen1, Limin Wu1, Yun Xu2(*), Zhiming Shang1, Can Zhong1, and Hongming Wang1 1

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Abstract. Band selection is the most useful method to overcome data redundancy of hyperspectral image data, which is to find a subset of spectral bands from more than 100 original spectral bands. In this chapter, we make a short review of band selection methods developed in recent years, and a new band selection method based on k-means++ clustering and genetic algorithms is developed. Firstly, k-means++ clustering method is applied to generate several optional subsets of spectral bands from original hyperspectral data. Then genetic algorithm is used to select bands based on a framework of supervised classification of the hyperspectral data. Two hyperspectral datasets are used to test the proposed method. It is proved that the presented band selection method can reduce the dimensionality of hyperspectral data efficiently and result in much better accuracy for classification applications. Keywords: Band selection · Genetic algorithm · Clustering · Supervised classification

1 Introduction Nowadays, hyperspectral imaging techniques have developed into a prosperous period with the usage of a high speed optic-fiber storage device. More and more hyperspectral data are captured and processed for many different kinds of applications, such as environment protection, agriculture monitoring, mineral detection and forest management. Large redundancy is an intrinsical drawback of hyperspectral data, which often leads to large computational cost and data noise for widely application. To overcome this drawback and decrease the processed quantity of hyperspectral data, several dimensionality reducement techniques are applied, such as principal components analysis (PCA), maximum noise fraction (MNF), independent component analysis (ICA) and band selection. Among these dimensionality reduction methods, band selection is a special preprocess, which is to find a subset of spectral bands from more than 100 original spectral © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 H. P. Urbach, Q. Yu (eds.), 5th International Symposium of Space Optical Instruments and Applications, Springer Proceedings in Physics 232, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27300-2_38

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bands. Due to without modification of physical meaning of original spectral data, band selection becomes the most useful method used by engineers and researchers for analysis of hyperspectral image data. In this chapter, we make a short review of band selection methods developed in recent years, and a new band selection method based on k-means++ clustering and genetic algorithm is developed. Firstly, k-means++ clustering method is applied to generate several optional subsets of spectral bands from original hyperspectral data. Then genetic algorithm is used to select bands based on a framework of supervised classification of the hyperspectral data. Two hyperspectral datasets are used to test the proposed method. It is proved that the presented band selection method can reduce the dimensionality of hyperspectral data efficiently and result in much better accuracy for classification applications. The rest of this chapter is structured as follows. Recent related works are introduced in Sect. 2. Section 3 illustrates the proposed band selection framework based on k-means++ and genetic algorithm. Section 4 displays the experiment and analysis. Finally, a short conclusion is drawn in Sect. 5.

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Usually, hyperspectral data has more than 100 bands, and spectral resolution of each band is about λ/100. λ is wavelength of visible light. High resolution leads to strong correlation among adjacent bands of hyperspectral data. Strong correlation will lead to high data redundancy, which will decrease the efficiency of band selection and hinder applications of hyperspectral data gravely. So, it is required naturally to eliminate the correlation of spectral bands before other processing, e.g. band selection and data dimensionality reduction. Clustering is such an efficient way to grouping similar bands into multiple clusters. K-means++ method is an optional clustering method due to its easiness of implementation. There are two major issues for band clustering. One is to decide proper number of clustering center, which is an input of k-means++ clustering. The other is to evaluate clustering result. For the first problem, the straightforward method is to iterate all possible number of clustering center. For the second problem, classification accuracy is used as a criterion to find the best clustering result. After band clustering, the number of spectral bands will decrease to a proper value. Genetic algorithm is used to implement band selection. Since genetic algorithm is a random search method based on evolutionary theory, it is to select a best result from several results of execution. The framework of band selection based on clustering and genetic algorithm is as follows: 1. Band Clustering Step For k ¼ k1: k2 do { For s ¼ 1: S1 do { Use k-means++ to do band clustering and result in k clustering centers; Find the closest band for each clustering center and generate band centers; Calculate classification accuracy for clustering band centers;}} Sort accuracy sequence to find the largest value and corresponding band centers; 2. Band Selection Step For s ¼ 1: S2 do { Generate an initial population of P individuals through random selection method;

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As mentioned above, band selection is a combinatorial optimization problem. It is going to select several bands from k bands, and (0 or 1) bit string is a nature representation for implementation of GAs. For bit strings, many genetic operators have been developed and proved to be successful, such as single-point crossover, two-point crossover and bit inversion mutation operator. For an individual g, original hyperspectral data can be reduced with dimension from k bands to s bands, and s is the number of 1 in g. Supervised classification of five modes mentioned above is carried out, and the best accuracy is recorded as the fitness value of g.

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For the input hyperspectral data, the number of band clusters varied from k1 ¼ 10 to k2 ¼ 60, and C1(¼ 20) times band clustering are run. The statistic results are displayed in Fig. 8. It can be deduced that classification accuracy will go up to a peak value 88.5348% together with number of clusters. After that, classification accuracy will not increase even the number of clusters continuously increases. In the best clustering result, original 224 spectral bands are grouped into 47 clusters, and the corresponding band distribution is shown in Fig. 11. The band clustering process containing the best classification accuracy is recorded in Fig. 9. Discriminant analysis classifier based on Quadratic and Mahalanobis mode shows better performance than other three modes. C2(¼ 20) times band selection based on GAs are run, and the best value and average value of each generation for one run is shown Fig. 10 and the corresponding best solution is shown in Fig. 11. The best solution selects 24 bands from the total 224 bands, and the corresponding classification accuracy is 89.7172%. It can be deduced from the above four figures that the performance of the band selection method works efficiently and robustly.

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Tree Species Classification of Airborne Hyperspectral Image in Cloud Shadow Area Junling Li1(*), Yong Pang1(*), Zengyuan Li1, and Wen Jia1 1

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Abstract. Tree species classification is crucial for forest management. Airborne hyperspectral data provide the image with high spatial and spectral resolution, which has a possibility for forest species classification. The radiance of airborne hyperspectral image was decreased when the cloud exists. The radiance of object in the cloud shadow area is much lower than the non-shaded. And the spectral variance of different objects in the shadow is also lower than that of the non-shaded region. Although the radiance of the image in the cloud shadow is decreased, there is still a certain difference among different objects, which provides the possibility for forest species classification. We used vegetation indices and texture features to recombine a new image. Reflectance images and the recombination images were classified by support vector machine (SVM) classifier. Tree species classification is crucial for forest management. Airborne hyperspectral data provide the image with high spatial and spectral resolution, which bring possibility to forest species classification. The radiance of object in the cloud shadow area of airborne hyperspectral image is much lower than the non-shaded area. And the spectral variance of different objects under the shadow is also lower than that of the non-shaded region. Although the radiance of the image in the cloud shadow is decreased, there is still a certain difference among different objects, which provides the possibility for forest species classification. We used vegetation indices and texture features to recombine a new image. The narrow band vegetation indices include red edge normalized vegetation index (NDVI705), Improved red edge ratio vegetation index (mSR705), Improved red edge normalized vegetation index (mNDVI705), Vogelmann1 (VOG1), Vogelmann2 (VOG2) and Red Edge Position Index. The bands of 31 (0.67 μm), 51 (0.86 μm) and 55 (0.89 μm) were used to calculate the texture information, which were selected using the optimum index factor (OIF). Tree species training samples was selected based on high resolution aerial photographs. The support vector machine (SVM) method was used to classify the reflectivity images and the feature images after recombination. The classification results were verified by filed data, and the overall accuracy and Kappa coefficient were used as the evaluation indices for classification accuracy. Compared with the classification result of reflectance image, the combination of vegetation index and texture information improve classification accuracy significantly. The overall accuracy and Kappa coefficient are 90.4% and 0.88, which increased 18% and 0.2 respectively. The classification accuracy of each tree species is also significantly improved. It can be seen from the confusion matrix that when using the reflectance image for classification, the Pinus koraiensis was divided into Pinus sylvestris by mistake. However, using vegetation index, the pixel number of Pinus koraiensis divided into Pinus sylvestris by mistake is greatly reduced. We concluded that the cloud-shaded forests can be classified based on the narrow band vegetation indices (NDVI705, mSR705, mNDVI705, VOG1, VOG2, REP) and texture information, which is better than the reflectance image only. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 H. P. Urbach, Q. Yu (eds.), 5th International Symposium of Space Optical Instruments and Applications, Springer Proceedings in Physics 232, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27300-2_39

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1 Introduction Tree species classification is an important part of forest resource management and scientific research [1]. The composition and distribution of tree species is not only important for the ecological economy, but also important for managers to make effective decisions. The traditional methods of obtaining tree species information mainly rely on field survey, which is not applicable to some remote forest areas. The traditional survey method requires a lot of human power, material and financial resources. Remote sensing can provide faster and more accurate tree species information. The rich information contained in remote sensing images is the basis for tree species classification [2]. The use of airborne hyperspectral data to classify forest species in different temperature zones at home and abroad proves that airborne hyperspectral data has great potential in forest resource monitoring and tree species classification [3–6]. However, during the obtaining of the airborne hyperspectral image, if there is a cloud in the sky, the radiance of object under the cloud shadow area is much lower than the non-shaded. And the spectral variance of different objects in the shadow is also lower than that of the non-shaded region. Gao et al., used spectral feature thresholds to detect cloud shadows and then used a comprehensive model to compensate for cloud shadows [7]. Wang et al. use a principal component analysis method to detect cloud shadows and then compensate with the unshaded pixel values of the same feature type on the image [8]. This compensation method needs to know the type of features on the image. The image after compensate is not suitable for the classification either. These cloud-shaded images are useually discarded, which will cause waste of image resources. In this study, we used vegetation indices and texture information to recombine new images. This recombined images were classified by a support vector machine (SVM) classifie to explore the potential of narrow band vegetation indices, texture information for the classification in cloud shadow forest.

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The study area is located in Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province. The geographical coordinates are 130 320 –130 520 east longitude and 46 200 –46 300 north latitude. The annual average temperature is 2.7  C. The extreme maximum temperature is 35.6  C and the minimum temperature is 34.7  C. The annual average rainfall is 550 mm. The annual sunshine hours are 1955 h. The forest farm is dominated by plantations. The area of plantations accounts for 76.7% of the total area of the forest. Larix olgensis, Pinus sylvestris and Pinus koraiensis account for about 80% of the total area of plantations. There are a small amount of Picea asperata in the plantation. Broad-leaf trees are mainly distributed in natural forests (Fig. 1).

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The hyperspectral image is obtained by the CAF’s (The Chinese Academy of Forestry) LiCHy (LiDAR, CCD and Hyperspectral) System owned by the Institute of Resource Information of the Chinese Academy of Forestry [9]. The acquisition time is June 5, 2017. The AISA Eagle II image used in this study has 64 bands with the spectral resolution of 3.3 nm and the ground spatial resolution of 0.5 m. Use Trimble handheld GPS to locate the position information of the tree species. The filed data obtained mainly includes 50 Larix olgensis training samples, 50 Pinus koraiensis training samples, 41 Pinus sylvestris training samples and 48 Picea asperata training samples, respectively. In this study, the training samples were selected based on DOM data, and the spatial resolution of the DOM used was 0.1 m, which was acquired synchronously with the hyperspectral data.

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In this paper, we used vegetation indices and texture information to recombine a new image. Reflectance images and recombined images were classified by SVM classifier. The results show that the narrow-band vegetation index and texture information can significantly improve the classification accuracy of the objects. The classification accuracy and Kappa coefficient are 90.4% and 0.88, which increased 18% and 0.2, respectively. The classification accuracy of each tree species is also significantly improved. It can be seen from the confusion matrix that when using the reflectance image for classification, the Pinus koraiensis is divided into Pinus sylvestris by mistake. However, using vegetation index, the number of Pinus koraiensis divided into Pinus sylvestris by mistake is greatly reduced, indicating that the vegetation index and texture information used in the feature image can greatly improve the distinguishing ability of Pinus koraiensis and Pinus sylvestris. At the same time, it can be seen from the confusion matrix that there is also a misclassification between farmland and grassland. This is because some farmland has been cultivated, and the grown crops and grassland have similar characteristics.

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4 Discussion Airborne hyperspectral remote sensing is a passive method of remote sensing. The flight platform is below the cloud layer. The image is greatly affected by the weather during the acquisition process. If the cloud layer blocks the sunlight, there will be cloud shadows on the image. Especially for the forest area, the weather changes quickly, and the effect of cloud shadows is a more obvious phenomenon. If the image with cloud shadow area is discarded, the cost of image acquisition will be greatly increased. Therefore, it is critical to select a proper method to improve the classification accuracy of hyperspectral image with cloud shadow. Since the shadow area of the cloud cannot directly receive the illumination of the sun, the pixel value of the shadow area is lower than the non-shadow area under the same imaging environment. It can be seen from spectral curves that the value of the spectral curve in the shaded area is significantly lower than that of the non-shaded area. When the forest species were classified using reflectance image, the overall accuracy and Kappa coefficient were 0.96 and 0.95 in the non-cloud area; however, the overall accuracy and Kappa coefficient were 0.72 and 0.68 when the tree species were classified using hyperspectral image with cloud shadow. This shows that the cloud shadow will reduce the classification accuracy of the forest tree species. The traditional method used to detect cloud shadow area mainly uses the threshold to identify the cloud shadow area, and then compensate the detected shadow area using the value of same object, but the pixel used for compensation may not the true spectral feature of the object in the shadow area, so the image compensated by this method is no longer suitable for tree species classification. Vegetation index and texture features represent the characteristics of the features themselves. For the selected vegetation index, it is calculated by the band between red and near infrared. This can eliminate the influence of clouds to some extent, thereby improving the classification accuracy of tree species.

5 Conclusion and Prospects This paper mainly classifies the airborne hyperspectral images in cloud shadows. The SVM was adopted to classify the reflectivity images and the feature images after recombination. Compared with the classification result of reflectance image, the combination of vegetation index and texture information can significantly improve the classification accuracy. The classification accuracy of each tree species is also significantly improved. It also can be seen from the confusion matrix that when using the reflectance image for classification, the Pinus koraiensis is divided into Pinus sylvestris by mistake. However, using vegetation index, the number of Pinus koraiensis divided into Pinus sylvestris by mistake is greatly reduced. We concluded that the cloud shadow forest can be classified based on the narrow band vegetation index (NDVI705, mSR705, mNDVI705, VOG1, VOG2, REP) and texture information and the classification result is better than the reflectance image does. However, this paper only uses the narrow-band vegetation index and does not use other vegetation indices, such as broad-band

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1 Introduction In these years, a plenty of research working on simple and novel optical system for commercial remote sensing are needing compact structures to achieve better performance. The traditional Cassegrain system (two mirrors system) has become the main choice for researchers [1–3]. However, with the increase of focal length and field of view, the imaging performance is limited by the aberration of dispersion and field curvature. In order to obtain a larger fields of view, the three-mirror [4, 5], four-mirror [6–8] and off-axis [9–12] system are widely used in lens design. Meanwhile, the size of system cannot be guaranteed to be compact. In this chapter, we designed a new optical design of compact system with folded path and the four-time reflector optical path. The whole system has the characteristics of lightweight, compact and simple structure with a high image quality.

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A Absolute displacement metrology, 247 Absolute distance interferometric techniques absolute metrology and laser heterodyne, 247–249 adaptive analysis, 250–251 error analysis and control, 251 realistic feasibility, 249–250 Acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF), 150–151 Active-passive hybrid isolation, 281 Active-type isolators, 281 Additive Gaussian white noise, 326 Advanced Geostationary/Geosynchronous Radiation Imager (AGRI), 306 Advanced on-orbit system (AOS) protocol, 49, 50 Aerial photogrammetry technology, 235 Airborne hyperspectral image in cloud shadow area accuracy verification, 395, 396 classification results and analysis, 396 classification workflow, 392 geometric correction and atmospheric correction, 392–393 image classification results, 395 narrow-band vegetation index, 393–394 remote sensing data and filed data obtaining, 391 spectral feature thresholds, 390 study area, 390, 391 supervised classification, 394–395 SVM method, 392 texture analysis, 393–394 texture information, 390 vegetation indices, 390

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B Background noise, 180 Background radiation, 7 Band selection methods, for hyperspectral data clustering and genetic algorithm, 381–382 hyperspectral dataset of broadleaf, 383–385 Salinas hyperspectral dataset, 385–386 supervised, 380 unsupervised, 380–381 Belt and Road Initiative remote locations, 13 remote sensing resources, 13–15 space infrastructure, 12

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C Calibration-based correction algorithm, 336 Camera LOS thermal analysis, 141, 144 thermal elastic analysis displacement cloud diagram, 140, 142 finite element model, 140, 141 long-term and short-term variation, 140 optical component, displacement of, 140, 142–143 TDICCD panchromatic multispectral cameras, 138 temperature cloud map, 140, 141 temperature load, 138–140 thermal desktop, 140 CCD, see Charge-coupled device Central detector, 237, 238, 240–241 Chandra telescope, 35 Chang’e-1, 149 Charge-coupled device (CCD) architecture active pixel configuration and image section structure, 288–289 storage section structure, 289 total device structure, 289–291 characterization, 292 packaged, 290, 291 pixel size, 162 split-frame transfer, 289 temperature verification test (see Time delay integration CCD) total layout, 290, 291 Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process, in C/SiC composite, 216 Chemical vapor infiltration (CVI) process, in C/SiC composite, 216 Chongqing Optical-Electrical Research Institute (COERI), 288 Churilovskii, V.N., 22 Classical Gregorian telescope, 400 Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) program, 264 Climate change research, 18–19, 263 Cloud detection, satellite images

spectral feature-based methods, 363 SVM-based cloud detection (see SVM-based cloud detection) texture feature-based methods, 364 Clustering band selection on, 381–382 best classification accuracy, 384, 386 statistic results, 383, 384, 386 Coded aperture snapshot imaging spectrometer, 176 Coded aperture X-ray optics, 187 Coefficient of thermal expansion, 219 Coherent lidar vs. incoherent detection, 205, 208 SNR, 209 Collimated type X-ray optics, 187 Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), 149 Computational imaging image processing design, 119–120 optical system design, 119 problem-oriented, 119 Computed tomography imaging spectrometer, 176 Control moment gyros (CMGs) isolation system micro-vibration test, 283–284 model build and analysis, 282–283 vibration test, 284–285 Correlation matching, 273–275 Crab Nebula soft X-ray band radiation, 194 C/SiC composite in space camera applications, 213–214 integrated main bearing structure scheme, 214 manufacture process, 216, 217 properties, 213 structural design and optimization, 214–215 thermal stability test, 218–219 Cube Satellite (CubeSat), all-spherical system, see All-spherical catadioptric telescope, for 3U CubeSat missions

D Dark noise, 180 See also Dark signals Dark signals in atmospheric heat cycle box, 130 mean value, 131–133 root mean square values, 132, 133 Data sampling processing technology, 309 Deep neural network (DNN), 327

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G Gaussian fitting, 271 Genetic algorithm (GA) band selection on, 381–382, 384–387 convergence plot, 384–387 GeoEye-1 satellite, 16 GeoEye-2 satellite, 16 Geometric correction, 392–393 Geostationary/Geosynchronous Interferometric Infrared Sounder (GIIRS), 306 German Remote Sensing Satellite, 16 GF-4 satellite characteristics, 296 and data characteristics, 296–297 multispectral image quality based superresolution enhancement classification accuracy, 302 evaluation technology flow, 298, 299 image classification results, 299, 301 image quality evaluation, 298, 300 PMS false color images, 298, 301 radiation calibration and atmospheric correction, 299 super-resolution reconstruction, 296 technical process, 297–298

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lens specifications, 125 MTF, 122–123 OPD, 121, 122 optics integration, 120 PSF, 122 radial polynomial, 121 RMS, 125 simulation end-to-end imaging model, 123–124 implementation process, 124–125 MSE, 124 vs. traditional design method, 124–127 wavefront coding, 120 Zernike polynomials, 121, 122 Optical system of LSST, 167, 168 of MINI-TES, 152, 153 MTF, 163–165, 172 of OMEGA, 151 small pixel size detector, 163–164 designing, 164–166 of on-axis three mirror, 166–171 specifications of, 400 Optical telescope, reflecting lens for embodiment of, 400 field curvature and system distortion, 403 folded path, 399 four-fold optical mirrors, 401, 402 MTFs, 402 optical design, 400–401 system layout, 401 wave-front, 403 Opto-mechanical devices, 221 OrbView-3, 16 OSIRIS-REx Thermal Emission Spectrometer (OTES), 149 OSIRIS-REx Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (OVIRS), 149, 150 Oversampling enhancement method, terahertz image bilateral filter, 374–375 experiment and analysis, 375–377 mathematical model, 374 multi-observation images, 374 super-resolution, 374

P Panchromatic image, 315 Pansharpening method, 316 Partition multiplexing convex gratings blazed grating structure, 198 diffraction efficiency

Index experimental setup for, 201, 202 finite difference time domain, 198, 202 spatial frequency, 198 vs. wavelength, 202, 203 wavelength with different blaze angles, 198, 199 fabrication, 200–202 Passive-type isolators, 281 Patran/Nastran software, 65 Phase-shifting multi-wavelength dynamic interferometer, 251 Phase shift interference (PSI) mode, 193 Photoelectric autocollimators (PEAC), 218 Photon noise, 180 Pinhole slit test, 269–270 Pioneer-5, 148 Pixel definition, 159 detector stitching, 159 large-scale, 159 multi-scale gaze stitching, 159 multi-shot stitching, 159 single shot stitching, 159 small pixel, 160 in space remote sensing cameras, 160 Platforms and payload bearing system, 84 star sensors and, 85 Plug and play technology, SpaceWire network architecture design of, 49 ASIM interface module, 55 bus monitoring technology, 50 driver bootstrap technology, 50–53 enhanced SpaceWire router scheme, 52–53 IEEE 1355-1995 and IEEE 1596.3, 49 integrated control software architecture, 53–55 Mar Express and Smart-1, 50 software operation mechanism, 55–56 Point spread 96 function (PSF), 122 Poisson noise, 326 PolyCarboSilane (PCS) fills, 216 Polymer infiltration pyrolysis (PIP), in C/SiC composite, 216 Positioning accuracy LOS principle affecting, 136–137 satellite image, 136 uncontrolled, 135 Pre-processing methods, 364–366 Problem-oriented computational imaging, 119 Prototype, 43 Pulsar navigation, grazing incidence X-ray optics, 188–189

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Pulsar Navigation Test Satellite 01 (XPNAV-1), 188–189 Push-broom scanning, 176

Q Quantum well infrared detector (QWIP), 15 QuickBird, 16

R Radiation calibration, for GF-4 satellite, 299 Reading noise, 180 Relative radiation correction accuracy, 342 Remote sensing camera momentum wheel vibration frequency domain analysis of, 64–65 optical model, 62–63 satellite control system, 61–62 structural model, 60, 61 structure–optic interface program, 63 time domain analysis of, 65–66 vibration source model, 60, 61 MTF, impact of, 66–67 Remote sensing images airborne hyperspectral (see Airborne hyperspectral image in cloud shadow area) denoising deep neural network, 327 denoising convolutional neural networks, 327 DRN-PE (see Deep residual network with parameter estimation) neural network-based methods, 327 stacked sparse denoising autoencoder, 327 traditional methods, 326–327 wavelet techniques, 326 WDSUV model, 326 and filed data, 391 positional accuracy, 135–136 terahertz imaging (see Terahertz image, oversampling enhancement method) traditional Cassegrain system, 399 tree species classification (see Tree species classification) Remote sensing satellites SuperView-1 satellite’s resolution, 349 TDICCD camera images (see TDICCD camera image radiation quality, micro-vibration)

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Ritchey-Chretien Cassegrain system achromatic principle, of rear lens group, 94–96 coaxial two-mirror system, 93–94 large aperture and obscuration ratio, 92 parameters of, 94 See also Space remote sensor, R-C system RIULBP, see Rotation invariant uniform local binary pattern Root mean square (RMS) spot diagram, 97, 98 of TDICCD, 131–133 of traditional optical design method, 125 Rotation invariant uniform local binary pattern (RIULBP), 365, 366, 368–371 Russian remote sensing satellites, 13 Russian Zenit-2 rocket, 14 Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), 14

S Salinas hyperspectral dataset, 385–386 Salt and pepper noise, 326 Satellite image positioning accuracy, 136 Satellite observations, of climate change, 263 Saudi Arabian satellite, 14 Scene-based non-uniformity correction methods, 336 SDD quantum efficiency, 194 Semi-active isolation, 281 Sensitivity matrix, LOS, 137–138 Short wave infrared (SWIR) band, 155 Shot-noise-limited coherent lidar, 208 Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) lidar system, 208–209 snapshot spectral camera, 180 Simpson integral method, 351 Single landscape width (SLW), 93 Single shot stitching, 159 Small pixel size detector vs. big pixel size detector, 162 CMOS detectors, 160, 161 detection system, 164 development, 160–162 ground sampled distance, 160 optical system, 163–164 designing, 164–166 of on-axis three mirror, 166–171 space camera, 160, 161 space remote sensing, 162–163 star sensor, 163 Small solar system bodies detection low-altitude orbital exploration, 153 spectrum detection asteroids, 153–154

main belt comets detection, 154 visible and infrared imaging spectrometer asteroid detection spectrometer, 156–157 specification design, 155–156 Snapshot spectral camera, micromirror arrays axial distance, 179 CCD230–42 photodetector, 178 collimating lens minimum numerical aperture of, 182 parameters of, 182 concept design, 177 depth of focus, 179 dispersion imager, optical layout of, 183 imager, parameters of, 182 main parameters, 178 MTF curves of, 184 pupil array, 181, 182 quantum efficiency curve of detector, 178, 179 relay imaging diagram, 181 SNR, 180–181 spectral information and spatial information, 176 telephoto objective lens imaging diagram, 178, 179 telephoto objective, parameters of, 182 zenith angles, 180, 181 SNR, see Signal-to-noise ratio Space-borne cameras ball bearing lubrication, 221 opto-mechanical devices, 221 solid lubrication materials, 221 Space camera CCD detector’s temperature effect (see Time delay integration CCD) C/SiC composite in (see C/SiC composite in space camera) small pixel size detector, 160, 161 Space Data Systems Advisory Committee (CCSDS), 49 Space Environment Package (SEP), 287 Space optical imaging system, terahertz imaging, 373, 374 Space remote sensing camera micron-scale detector, 160 rolling wheel method, 222 Space remote sensor, R-C system calculation of system parameters, 93 catadioptric optical system, 92 characteristics, 91–92 design requirements, 92 image quality evaluation, 97–98 layout and parameters of, 96–97 optical design principle of, 93–96

Index reflective optical system, 92 refractive optical system, 92 SpaceWire, see Plug and play technology, SpaceWire network Spatial radiation reference, 264 Spectral feature thresholds, 390 Spectral imaging technology applications, 176 definition, 175 scanning spectral imaging systems, 176 snapshot spectral imaging systems, 176 Spectral response function (SRF) curve, multi-band image fusion correlation coefficient, 321 entropy, 321 of example camera, 320 fusion results, 321 objective evaluation, 321, 322 original images and degraded image, 320 PAN component calculation, 318–319 spectral retention quantitative results, 323 Spectroscopy for the Investigation of the Characteristics of the Atmosphere of Mars (SPICAM), 150 Spot diagram, 26 Sputtered MoS2, in thin-wall ball bearing, 224 SRF curve, see Spectral response function curve Stacked sparse denoising autoencoder (SSDA), 327 Star camera stereo mapping satellite, 112, 117 sub-arcsec (see Sub-arcsec star camera) Stereo mapping double-vector attitude error modeling determination error, 113 front and back camera coordinate system, 114 STC bore-sight error, 113 transition matrix, 112 error weighted orientation accuracy modeling, 114–115/ simulation results and analysis, 116–117 Stray light analysis, 103, 106–107 relay lens connection, 108 self-thermal radiation and components, 109 Sub-arcsec star camera analysis of mission, 254 configuration, 255 focal plane precision assembly, 255–256 general design scheme, 254–255 laboratory calibration, 256–257 7.5 Mv star on orbit image, 257, 259 NEA error of, 258, 259

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overall error of, 258, 260 picture of, 258 pointing accuracy, 254 quaternion error, 257 test on orbit, 257–260 vacuum focal plane setting and testing, 257, 258 Supervised band selection, 380 Supervised classification, 394–395 Surface stereo imager (SSI), 150 Survey drawing, 18 SVM-based cloud detection, combined GLCM and RIULBP texture features experiments results, 369–370 set-up, 368–369 feature discrimination, 364, 368 flow chart, 365 Kernel function, 368 pre-processing methods, 364–366 texture feature extraction, 364, 366–368 SVM method, for tree species classification, 392

T Target tracking correlation matching, 273–274 essential algorithm flow, 275, 276 failure of, 275 improved algorithm flow, 277 Kalman filter, 274–275 result analysis, 278–279 template’s scaling, 276 transfer matrix, 277–278 TDICCD, see Time delay integration CCD TDICCD camera image radiation quality, micro-vibration amplitude impact analysis, 354 evaluation indexes, 352 frequency impact analysis, 355–358 model establishment, 350–351 number of stage impact analysis, 355, 357, 359, 360 primary and secondary relationship and interaction relationship, 350 rule application, 357, 361 simulation input, 352–353 working principle diagram, 350, 351 TDICCD panchromatic multispectral cameras, 138 Terahertz image, oversampling enhancement method bilateral filter, 374–375

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Terahertz image (cont.) experiment and analysis, 375–377 mathematical model, 374 multi-observation images, 374 super-resolution, 374 Texture feature-based methods, SVM-based cloud detection experiments results, 369–370 set-up, 368–369 feature discrimination, 364, 368 GLCM, 365 pre-processing methods, 364–366 RIULBP, 365 texture feature extraction, 364, 366–368 Texture feature extraction, 364, 366–368 THEOS satellite, 14 Thermal deformation, 246 Thermal desktop (TD), 140 Thermal stability analysis of LOS, see Camera LOS 3D control field calibration method, 236 Time delay integration CCD (TDICCD) dark signal and dynamic range, results of, 131–133 experiment procedure, 131 focal plane circuit, and signal processing circuit, 131 scheme, 129–131 test equipment connection, 130 test temperature and thermal insulation time, 130 Time-of-flight method, 247 Tolerance analysis, 29–30 Tree species classification airborne hyperspectral image in cloud shadow area accuracy verification, 395, 396 classification results and analysis, 396 classification workflow, 392 geometric correction and atmospheric correction, 392–393 image classification results, 395 narrow-band vegetation index, 393–394 remote sensing data and filed data obtaining, 391 spectral feature thresholds, 390 study area, 390, 391 supervised classification, 394–395 SVM method, 392 texture analysis, 393–394 texture information, 390 vegetation indices, 390 remote sensing, 390 traditional survey method, 390

U Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVS), 149 Uncontrolled positioning accuracy, 135 Unsupervised band selection, 380–381 US Remote Sensing Satellite System, 15

V Vacuum testing system, 44 Visible and infrared imaging spectrometer asteroid detection spectrometer, 156–157 observation radiance of, 156 optical system layout, 156, 157 specification design, 155–156 Visible and infrared mineralogical mapping spectrometer (OMEGA), 151 Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS), 151 Visible-shortwave infrared imaging spectrometers, 197–198

W Warm dark matter (WDM), 33 Wavefront coding, 120 Weather forecast, 18–19 Weibull distribution theory, 232 Weighted double sparsity unidirectional variation (WDSUV) model, 326 Whisk-broom scanning, 176 Wiener filter algorithm, 125, 127 WorldView-1 satellite, 16 WorldView-2 satellite, 16

X Xi Jinping, 11 XMM-Newton telescope, 35 X-ray astronomy, 187 X-ray detector technology, 33 X-ray optics coded aperture, 187 collimated type, 187 grazing incidence (see Grazing incidence X-ray optics) lobster eye, 187 normal incidence, 187–188 X-ray telescopes, 187

Z Zemax optical design program, 26 Zernike polynomials, 121, 122