基于嵌入式FPGA加速ORB算法的遥感影像配准方法

卫星上计算资源有限，星载嵌入式处理器处理遥感影像的配准时通常需要很长的时间。可编程逻辑门阵列（FPGA）利用其内部可编程器件可用于加速图像处理。提出了一种基于Xilinx公司的ZYNQ芯片加速ORB算法的遥感影像配准方法，可用于3000×3000像素尺寸的卫星图像配准，缩短了计算耗时，提升了ORB算法的计算能效比。利用FPGA能够实现真正的并行计算电路，实现ORB算法多支路单层流水线的并行计算结构。采用软硬件结合的方法实现架构，能够处理不同分辨率的图像，可灵活配置特征点的数量。基于设计的加速ORB配准方法，获得了较高准确率。与软件实现相比,OVS-1A遥感影像偏移精度损失低于0.05个像元;GF.4遥感影像偏移精度损失小于0.9个像元。将ORB配准算法流程应用在ZYNQ7020上，耗时减少了57.50%。     

A time-frequency analysis of the thermal radiation background anomalies caused by large earthquakes: A case study of the Wenchuan 8.0 earthquake

Strong earthquakes have an impact on the regional thermal radiation background, which has been both observed and confirmed. This effect produces anomalies in the thermal radiation background (TRBA) and increases the difficulty of extracting a thermal radiation anomaly (TRA) that is associated with an earthquake occurring during the same time period. The extraction and identification of such anomalies has been ignored by previous studies. In this study, we investigate the time-frequency analysis (TFA) method, together with the wavelet filtering of the Daubechies method and the relative power spectrum analysis of the Fourier Welch method to extract and analyse the TRBA caused by the 2008 Wenchuan Ms 8.0 earthquake and the TRA of the 2013 Minxian-Zhangxian Ms 6.6 earthquake using data concerning the brightness temperature of a black body (TBB) from the Fengyun-2 series of geostationary meteorological satellites developed by China. The result showed that this method can effectively extract and analyse the TRBA caused by the Wenchuan earthquake and the TRA of the Minxian-Zhangxian earthquake form a complex background environment. Furthermore, we discussed the impact of the earthquake on the TRBA and segmented the process. The impact is mainly reflected by three aspects; the characteristic period of the TRBA changes, the TRBA occurs at the same time every year, which is identical to the time at which the earthquake anomaly occurred, and the impact process is in stages. We also summarized the correlation between the characteristic parameters of a TRA and the regional thermal radiation background, geography, and climatic factors.     

基于滑模反演控制的稳定平台齿隙非线性补偿

针对航空遥感惯性稳定平台中齿隙非线性带来的不稳定问题，结合反演控制和滑模控制的优点，在传统反演控制的每一步迭代过程引入与齿轮运动状态相关的基于连续饱和函数的动态滑模面，设计了相应的滑模反演控制器。在保证了系统误差快速收敛的同时，抑制了反演过程中的误差积累，实现了系统非线性误差精确补偿。仿真实验结果表明，与传统反演控制相比，滑模反演控制显著降低了齿隙非线性对系统动态性能的影响，有效提高了系统对期望角位置、角速度的跟踪性能。     

空间光学相机调焦技术研究

调焦技术是空间光学相机研制的关键技术之一,对于保证相机成像质量具有重要作用.文章阐述了造成相机离焦的主要因素,在调研分析国内外空间光学相机调焦方式的基础上,对相机调焦方式的选用原则进行了归纳,并介绍了常用调焦机构的基本结构形式和优缺点,以及具有发展前景的调焦光学元件,可为相机调焦技术的研究提供借鉴和帮助.     

光纤环内部应力试验研究

光纤环是光纤陀螺的核心敏感部件,其内部应力值的大小和分布对光纤陀螺的整体性能有很大影响.光纤环的内部应力主要包含拉伸应力、弯曲应力和固化应力等,光纤环的绕制工艺和固化工艺等都会对光纤环的应力产生影响.通过测量不同绕制工艺下光纤环的应力分布和偏振串扰分布,得出光纤环绕制张力越小、光纤环直径越大、固化胶的收缩率越小,光纤环的应力也越小,相应的偏振串扰值也越小,为光纤环绕制技术的提高提供依据.     

风扇/压气机周向模态识别中传感器角度偏差的影响

基于任意角度压缩感知(CS)方法分析了传感器安装角度偏差对风扇/压气机周向模态识别重构的影响,设计了一套自适应角度优化程序修正重构误差。利用数值试验探究了传感器角度偏差和数量对周向模态重构结果的影响,研究表明:当角度偏差等级为2.5%时,平均重构误差达到10%以上,若保证重构误差基本不变,将传感器数量从7个增加至25个,仅可以将角度偏差等级放宽至4%。而采用小生境微种群遗传算法进行自适应角度优化,在20 dB信噪比下,通过自适应角度优化可将角度偏差等级从2.5%放宽至10%,降低了传感器安装的精度要求。成功优化了一款冷却风扇在前三阶叶片通过频率下的主要周向声模态重构幅值。自适应角度优化算法有效提升了基于压缩感知的风扇/压气机周向模态重构可靠性。     

原子传感用垂直腔面发射激光器研究进展

垂直腔面发射激光器(Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Laser,VCSEL)是半导体激光器家族中的最重要成员之一,因其具有单纵模、低功耗、光束易整形等一系列独特优势,是多种微型化原子传感器的理想光源。围绕原子传感这一应用需求,国内外多个科研机构和企业对Rb原子和Cs原子传感用VCSEL开展了不同层次的研究,主要对其中的代表性研究进展进行综述。     

Earth observation from space – The issue of environmental sustainability

Remote sensing scientists work under assumptions that should not be taken for granted and should, therefore, be challenged. These assumptions include the following:1. Space, especially Low Earth Orbit (LEO), will always be available to governmental and commercial space entities that launch Earth remote sensing missions.2. Space launches are benign with respect to environmental impacts.3. Minimization of Type 1 error, which provides increased confidence in the experimental outcome, is the best way to assess the significance of environmental change.4. Large-area remote sensing investigations, i.e. national, continental, global studies, are best done from space.5. National space missions should trump international, cooperative space missions to ensure national control and distribution of the data products.At best, all of these points are arguable, and in some cases, they're wrong. Development of observational space systems that are compatible with sustainability principles should be a primary concern when Earth remote sensing space systems are envisioned, designed, and launched. The discussion is based on the hypothesis that reducing the environmental impacts of the data acquisition step, which is at the very beginning of the information stream leading to decision and action, will enhance coherence in the information stream and strengthen the capacity of measurement processes to meet their stated functional goal, i.e. sustainable management of Earth resources. We suggest that unconventional points of view should be adopted and when appropriate, remedial measures considered that could help to reduce the environmental footprint of space remote sensing and of Earth observation and monitoring systems in general. This article discusses these five assumptions in the context of sustainable management of Earth's resources. Taking each assumption in turn, we find the following:(1) Space debris may limit access to Low Earth Orbit over the next decades.(2) Relatively speaking, given that they're rare event, space launches may be benign, but study is merited on upper stratospheric and exospheric layers given the chemical activity associated with rocket combustion by-products.(3) Minimization of Type II error should be considered in situations where minimization of Type I error greatly hampers or precludes our ability to correct the environmental condition being studied.(4) In certain situations, airborne collects may be less expensive and more environmentally benign, and comparative studies should be done to determine which path is wisest.(5) International cooperation and data sharing will reduce instrument and launch costs and mission redundancy. Given fiscal concerns of most of the major space agencies – e.g. NASA, ESA, CNES – it seems prudent to combine resources.     

Clouds and Earth Radiant Energy System (CERES), a review: Past,present and future

The Clouds and Earth Radiant Energy System (CERES) project’s objectives are to measure the reflected solar radiance (shortwave) and Earth-emitted (longwave) radiances and from these measurements to compute the shortwave and longwave radiation fluxes at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) and the surface and radiation divergence within the atmosphere. The fluxes at TOA are to be retrieved to an accuracy of 2%. Improved bidirectional reflectance distribution functions (BRDFs) have been developed to compute the fluxes at TOA from the measured radiances with errors reduced from ERBE by a factor of two or more. Instruments aboard the Terra and Aqua spacecraft provide sampling at four local times. In order to further reduce temporal sampling errors, data are used from the geostationary meteorological satellites to account for changes of scenes between observations by the CERES radiometers.     

GNSS reflectometry and remote sensing: New objectives and results

The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) has been a very powerful and important contributor to all scientific questions related to precise positioning on Earth’s surface, particularly as a mature technique in geodesy and geosciences. With the development of GNSS as a satellite microwave (L-band) technique, more and wider applications and new potentials are explored and utilized. The versatile and available GNSS signals can image the Earth’s surface environments as a new, highly precise, continuous, all-weather and near-real-time remote sensing tool. The refracted signals from GNSS radio occultation satellites together with ground GNSS observations can provide the high-resolution tropospheric water vapor, temperature and pressure, tropopause parameters and ionospheric total electron content (TEC) and electron density profile as well. The GNSS reflected signals from the ocean and land surface could determine the ocean height, wind speed and wind direction of ocean surface, soil moisture, ice and snow thickness. In this paper, GNSS remote sensing applications in the atmosphere, oceans, land and hydrology are presented as well as new objectives and results discussed.