SmartScan -- hardware test results for smart opto-electronic image correction for pushbroom cameras

Abstract

The paper describes the test results of the hardware model of a smart pushbroom imaging system. The imaging system can be used on satellites with moderately attitude stability due to application of the image correction on base of the real-time image motion record by an optoelectronic image processor and auxiliary sensors in the focal plane. The tested model includes the breadboard model of a smart pushbroom camera with auxiliary sensors, the optoelectronic processor model and the image correction software. The tests have been performed on a laboratory satellite motion simulator based on a 5 DOF industrial robot. Numerical values of the image motion record accuracy and the image correction efficiency are given as well as a detailed test description.