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2016 Abstracts of Technical Papers 2016 ABSTRACTS OF TECHNICAL PAPERS September 20-23, 2016 ABSTRACTS OF TECHNICAL PAPERS 2016 ADAPTIVE OPTICS AND IMAGING Session Chairs: Lt Col Michael Martinez, Air Force Office of Scientific Research and Charles Matson, Air Force Office of Scientific Research All-Sky Image Fusion for a Synoptic Survey Telescope in Arctic and Antarctic Domains ...................................... 1 Mariusz Grøtte, Georgia Institute of Technology Daylight Operation of a Sodium Laser Guide Star for Adaptive Optics Wave-Front Sensing .................................. 1 Stuart Jefferies, Georgia State University A Comprehensive Approach to High-Resolution Daylight Imaging for SSA ......................................................... ….2 Michael Hart, University of Arizona Developing Geostationary Satellite Imaging at Lowell Observatory .......................................................................... 2 Gerard van Belle, Lowell Observatory High Time Resolution Photon Counting 3D Imaging Sensors .................................................................................... 3 Oswald Siegmund, University of California SPIDER: Next Generation Chip Scale Imaging Sensor Update ................................................................................... 3 Alan Duncan, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS Session Chairs: Stacie Williams, Air Force Office of Scientific Research and Thomas Cooley, Air Force Research Laboratory Operational Implementation of a Pc Uncertainty Construct for Conjunction Assessment Risk Analysis .............. 4 Lauri Newman, NASA Assessing the UN IADC Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines: A Case for Ontology-Based Data Management ..... 4 Ramona Walls, CyVerse, University of Arizona JSpOC SSA: A Year in Review ....................................................................................................................................... 5 Scott Putnam, U.S. Air Force, Joint Space Operations Center Coordination of Ground- and Space-Based Optical Systems: Lessons from the SKYNET Observation and Relocation Experiment ................................................................................................................................................... 5 Andrew Ash, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory A Novel Method for Satellite Maneuver Prediction ...................................................................................................... 6 Charlotte Shabarekh, Aptima, Inc. ORBITAL DEBRIS Session Chairs: Tim Flohrer, ESA/ESOC Space Debris Office and Thomas Schildknecht, Astronomical Institute University of Bern NASA’s Orbital Debris Optical and IR Ground-Based Observing Program Utilizing the MCAT, UKIRT, and Magellan Telescopes ...................................................................................................................................................... 7 Susan Lederer, NASA Johnson Space Center The Population of Optically Faint GEO Debris ............................................................................................................. 8 Patrick Seitzer, University of Michigan Astronomy Optical Observations of Briz-M Fragments in GEO ..................................................................................................... 8 Thomas Schildknecht, Astronomical Institute University of Bern TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACTS OF TECHNICAL PAPERS 2016 Application of Satellite Laser Ranging Techniques for Space Situational Awareness Efforts ................................ 9 Mark Shappirio, NASA/GSFC Optical Techniques for Space Environment Management .......................................................................................... 9 Ben Greene, Space Environment Research Centre Laser Remote Maneuver of Space Debris at the Space Environment Research Centre .......................................... 9 Matthew Bold, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Tracking Low Earth Orbit Small Debris with GPS Satellites as Bistatic Radar ....................................................... 10 Craig Benson, UNSW Canberra Sub-Millimeter Size Debris Monitoring System with IDEA OSG 1 ............................................................................ 11 Masahiko Uetsuhara, Astroscale INSTRUMENTATION AND OPTICAL SURVEILLANCE Session Chairs: Mark Ackermann, Sandia National Laboratories and Susan Lederer, NASA Johnson Space Center Combined Space-Based Observations of Geostationary Satellites ......................................................................... 12 Lauchie Scott, DRDC Ottawa Mission Design and Simulation Considerations for ADReS-A .................................................................................. 13 Susanne Peters, Universität der Bundeswehr München Matched Template Signal Processing for Coherent, Continuous Wave Laser Tracking of Space Debris ............ 13 Shasidran Raj, Space Environmental Research Center GEO Satellite Characterization Through Polarimetry Using Simultaneous Observations from Nearby Optical Sensors ................................................................................................................................................ 14 Manuel Cegarra Polo, UNSW Canberra Multiple Observing Modes for Wide-Field Optical Surveillance of GEO Space ....................................................... 15 John McGraw, J.T. McGraw and Associates, LLC Affordable Wide-field Optical Space Surveillance using sCMOS and GPUs ........................................................... 15 Peter Zimmer, J.T. McGraw and Associates, LLC Automated Astrometric Analysis of Satellite Observations Using Wide-Field Imaging ......................................... 16 Jovan Skuljan, Defence Technology Agency. NZ Intelligent Sensor Control for Autonomous Catalogue Building and Maintenance ................................................ 17 Tyler A. Hobson, The University of Queensland Enabling GEODSS for Space Situational Awareness (SSA)...................................................................................... 17 Sam Wootton, The MITRE Corporation Adapting a Planetary Science Observational Facility for Space Situational Awareness ....................................... 18 Phil Bland, Curtin University SSA ALGORITHMS Session Chairs: Randall Alliss, Northrop Grumman Corporation and Ryan Coder, Integrity Applications Incorporated- Pacific Defense Solutions (IAI-PDS) Uncued Low SNR Detection with Likelihood from Image Multi Bernoulli Filter ...................................................... 19 Timothy Murphy, Georgia Tech TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACTS OF TECHNICAL PAPERS 2016 Utilizing Novel Non-Traditional Sensor Tasking Approaches to Enhance the Space Situational Awareness Picture Maintained by the Space Surveillance Network ............................................................................................ 19 Alex Herz, Orbit Logic OrbitOutlook Data Processing Algorithms: Multi-Modal Fusion for Autonomous Verification and Validation of Commercial and Crowdsourced Data ................................................................................................... 20 Larry Gunn, DARPA Evidence-Based Sensor Tasking for Space Domain Awareness.............................................................................. 21 Andris Jaunzemis, Georgia Institute of Technology A Sensor Tasking Reward Function Incorporating Target Priorities ....................................................................... 21 Steven Gehly, RMIT University Resident Space Objects Characterization and Behavior Understanding via Machine Learning and Ontology-Based Bayesian Networks ........................................................................................................................... 22 Roberto Furfaro, University of Arizona Dynamic Sensor Tasking for Space Situational Awareness via Reinforcement Learning ..................................... 22 Richard Linares, University of Minnesota False-Object Identification for Space Surveillance Catalog Maintenance ............................................................... 23 Mark Pittelkau, Solers, Inc. High Performance Orbital Propagation Using a Generic Software Architecture ..................................................... 24 Marek Moeckel, Space Environment Research Centre ASTRODYNAMICS Session Chairs: Moriba Jah, The University of Arizona and Paul Schumacher, Air Force Research Laboratory Ground-Based Tracking of Geosynchronous Space Objects with a GM-CPHD Filter ............................................ 25 Brandon Jones, The University of Texas at Austin Schmidt-Kalman Filter with Polynomial Chaos Expansion for Orbit Determination of Space Objects ................. 26 Yang Yang, RMIT University Homotopy Particle Filter for Ground-Based Tracking of Satellites at GEO ........................................................... 26 Moses Chan, Lockheed Martin On the Confidence Region of Least Squares Solutions for Single-Arc Observations ............................................ 27 Gennaro Principe, University of Southampton Joint Target Detection and Tracking Filter for Chilbolton Advanced Meteorological Radar Data Processing..... 27 Andrey Pak, University of Chile KRATOS: Kollision Risk Assessment Tool in Orbital Element Spaces ................................................................... 28 Joshua Horwood, Numerica Corporation Spatial Density Maps from a Debris Cloud ................................................................................................................. 28
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