Meteorix - A new processing chain for real-time detection and tracking of meteors from space

Maxime Millet (1) , Nicolas Rambaux , Andrea Petreto , Florian Lemaitre (1) , Lionel Lacassagne (1)

1 ALSOC - Architecture et Logiciels pour Systèmes Embarqués sur Puce

this article describes a processing chain for meteor detection from space. Unlike ground detection using stationary cameras with a still background, detection aboard a nano-satellite needs to deal with a camera in motion and a moving background. The main parts of this chain are an estimation of the apparent movement and the computation of angular statistics. The first results show a detection probability close to 96% on the whole set of Chiba videos from the PERC (Planetary Exploration Research Center) Meteor Project.

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Automatique / Robotique; Mathématique discrète [cs.DM]; Génie logiciel [cs.SE]; Calcul parallèle, distribué et partagé [cs.DC]; Arithmétique des ordinateurs; Architectures Matérielles [cs.AR]; Algorithme et structure de données [cs.DS]; Vision par ordinateur et reconnaissance de formes [cs.CV]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Traitement des images [eess.IV]; Robotique [cs.RO]

Maxime Millet, Nicolas Rambaux, Andrea Petreto, Florian Lemaitre, Lionel Lacassagne. Meteorix - A new processing chain for real-time detection and tracking of meteors from space. WGN, Journal of the International Meteor Organization, 2022, 49 (6). ⟨hal-03690964⟩