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| Author: | Kumar, Rachit |
| Title: | Automatic Radiometric Improvement of Moon Images for Shadow Segmentation |
| Publication type: | Master's thesis |
| Publication year: | 2015 |
| Pages: | [11] + 67 s. + liitt. 6 Language: eng |
| Department/School: | Sähkötekniikan korkeakoulu |
| Main subject: | Space Robotics and Automation (AS3004) |
| Supervisor: | Visala, Arto ; Enmark, Anita |
| Instructor: | Lingenauber, Martin |
| Electronic version URL: | http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:aalto-201509184365 |
| Location: | P1 Ark Aalto 3078 | Archive |
| Keywords: | image processing optical navigation shadow segmentation lunar image classification |
| Abstract (eng): | Kaufmann et al. [18] have proposed a method for pose estimation of the space craft during the descent phase by matching the shadows between real time images and reference images. The shadow segmentation of the real time images is largely affected by the lunar surface reflectance, the lunar surface features and the illumination conditions. The thesis investigates various radiometric enhancement methods to reduce the effect of these artefacts on the shadow segmentation. An enhancement pipeline was designed to enhance the contrast of the images. An automated classification of images was also implemented in the pipeline based on topographical information and mathematical parameters. The Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) images from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission were used, to develop the automated classification logic of the pipeline using the training data set and to validate the performance of the pipeline using the test data set. The reference images were rendered from the Digital Terrain Model (DTM) files of the corresponding NAC images. The result shows that enhancement of the descent images increases the amount of segmented shadows, when compared with the shadow segmented original image. The percentage of correct shadow match between the shadow segmented virtual image and shadow segmented enhanced images are higher compared to the shadow segmented original image. Further, it is observed that the applied enhancement method depends on the surface reflectance and the incidence angle. |
| ED: | 2015-09-27 |
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