Automatic georeferencing of astronaut auroral photography

Astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) have taken thousands of high-resolution colour photographs of the aurora, which could be made useful for research if their pointing information could be reconstructed. We describe a method to do this using the star field in the images, and ho...

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Published inGeoscientific instrumentation, methods and data systems Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 289 - 304
Main Authors Riechert, Maik, Walsh, Andrew P, Gerst, Alexander, Taylor, Matthew G. G. T
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Gottingen Copernicus GmbH 19.07.2016
Copernicus Publications
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Astronauts
Auroras
Cameras
Colour
Earth science
Geographic information systems
Image reconstruction
International Space Station
Ionosphere
Multinational space ventures
Open source software
Orbits
Photography
Public domain
Remote sensing
Space stations
Working hours
Southern Hemisphere
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Summary:Astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) have taken thousands of high-resolution colour photographs of the aurora, which could be made useful for research if their pointing information could be reconstructed. We describe a method to do this using the star field in the images, and how the reconstructed pointing can then be used to georeference the images to a similar level of accuracy in existing all-sky camera images. We have used this method to make georeferenced auroral images taken from the ISS available and here describe the resulting data set, processing software, and how to access them.
ISSN:2193-0864
2193-0856
2193-0864
DOI:10.5194/gi-5-289-2016