Dynamic Disturbance Analysis of Whiskbroom Area Array Imaging of Aerospace Optical Camera

• Published in: IEEE access Vol. 9; pp. 137099 - 137106
• Main Authors: Wang, Shaoen, Yang, Xiubin, Feng, Rupeng, Gao, Suining, Han, Jinliang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 2021; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Analytical models; Angular velocity; Atmospheric modeling; Atmospheric optical properties; Cameras; Degradation; dynamic disturbance; image degradation; Image quality; Image resolution; image simulation; Kinematics; Morphology; Optical distortion; Optical imaging; optical path calculation; Orbits; Quality assessment; Signal to noise ratio; Similarity
• ISSN: 2169-3536; 2169-3536
• DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3111852

The whiskbroom scanning imaging mode effectively expands the imaging field of the space optical camera, and realizes high-resolution and wide-width spatial imaging. However, the dynamic disturbance in the short-term and large-scale imaging process will cause uneven degradation of the image. Therefore, a geometric model of the camera instantaneous imaging at a moment is constructed. Then, the movement trend of the camera and the deflection of the light are deduced separately for establishing the analysis model of the kinematic disturbance and the morphological disturbance. Finally, the dynamic disturbance result of the imaging process is obtained by fusing both kinematic disturbance and morphological disturbance, and the simulated image of the dynamic disturbance is evaluated by combining the geometric parameters and the image quality evaluation index. The results show that the dynamic disturbance of the imaging will be enhanced with the increase of the whiskbroom angle and angular velocity, resulting in the decrease of the peak signal-to-noise ratio and the structural similarity of the image. When the angular velocity on the 500km orbit increases from 1°/<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">s </tex-math></inline-formula> to 10°/<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">s </tex-math></inline-formula>, the peak signal-to-noise ratio and structural similarity of the simulated image, affected by the combining influence of kinematic disturbance and morphological disturbance, decrease by 2.1454 dB and 0.1131 respectively at 0°, but decrease by 1.5680 dB and 0.0405 at 45°. The analysis results of this paper can provide an effective reference for further research on the degradation process of whiskbroom ultra-wide image and improve the quality of the image.