The precise orbit determination problem is to accurately determine the position and velocity vectors of an orbiting satellite. In this paper we review the general contents of the orbit determination process, with particular emphasis on Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. The different orbit determination approaches and the different force models contained within are briefly discussed. The two mai...

The Earth’s surface is under the continuous influence of a variety of natural forces and human induced sources. Strain data are good examples of such disturbed signals. To determine the geodetic strain behavior before and after the 2003 Tokachi-oki earthquake (M8.0), we decomposed the disturbed strain data into trend, air pressure, earth tide, and precipitation responses components. The decompo...

A priori information given by the complete modelling of the ballistic behavior of a projectile is simplified to give a pertinent reduced evolution model. This model is composed of quasi-static and dynamic models. An extended Kalman filter is designed to estimate dynamic part of the 3 attitude angles (roll in [0, 2π], angle of attack and side-slip in the range of few milliradians) from measures ...

There are 1.9 hectares of productive land available for each of the 6 billion people living in the world at present. In our industrialised Western society it is sometimes hard to realise quite how fundamental land is to our life on earth. The top six inches of land, which is soil, has to provide us with all our food. The land has to absorb much of our waste and is the catchment and filter for o...

Submillimeter and near-infrared images of cool dusty debris disks and rings suggest the existence of unseen planets. At dusty but nonimaged stars, semimajor axes of associated planets can be estimated from the dust temperature. For some young stars these semimajor axes are greater than 100 as seen from Earth. Such stars are excellent targets for sensitive near-infrared imaging searches for warm...

Submillimeter and near-infrared images of cool dusty debris disks and rings suggest the existence of unseen planets. At dusty but non-imaged stars, semi-major axes of associated planets can be estimated from the dust temperature. For some young stars these semi-major axes are greater than an arc second as seen from Earth. Such stars are excellent targets for sensitive near-infrared imaging sear...

A smart munition revolves by 2~3Hz when it flights. Before guidance starts, the roll estimation of a smart munition is an important factor to improve the navigation performance. The roll estimation algorithm is already known using IMU and GPS. But GPS can’t be available as a measurement under GPS jamming environment. This paper explains how to estimate the roll angle of a smart munition under j...

Multilevel voltage source inverters offer several advantages compared to their conventional counterparts. By synthesising the AC output terminal voltage from several levels of voltages, staircase waveforms can be produced, which approach the sinusoidal waveform with low harmonic distortion, thus reducing filter requirements. The need of several sources on the DC side of the converter makes mult...

The High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) is a traditional filter-wheel based crosstrack line scanning radiometer that measures scene radiance in the infrared and visible spectrum with 20 channels, including twelve long-wave channels (668.5 to 1533 cm), seven short-wave channels (2188 to 2660 cm), and one visible channel (0.69 μm). The instantaneous field of view for HIRS/3 (HIRS15,...