Multiple Coulomb scattering method to reconstruct low-energy gamma–ray direction in the GAMMA-400 space-based gamma–ray telescope

The GAMMA-400 currently developing space-based gamma-ray telescope is designed to measure the gamma-ray fluxes in the energy range from ～20?MeV to several TeV in the highly elliptic orbit (without shadowing the telescope by the Earth) continuously for a long time. The physical characteristics of the GAMMA-400 gamma-ray telescope, especially the angular and energy resolutions (at 100-GeV gamma rays they are ～0.01° and ～1%, respectively), allow us to consider this space-based experiment as the next step in the development of extraterrestrial high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. In this paper, a method to improve the reconstruction accuracy of incident angle for low-energy gamma rays in the GAMMA-400 space-based gamma-ray telescope is presented. The special analysis of topology of pair-conversion events in thin layers of converter was performed. Applying the energy dependence of multiple Coulomb scattering for pair components, it is possible to estimate the energies for each particle, and to use these energies as weight in the angle reconstruction procedure. To identify the unique track in each projection the imaginary curvature method is applied. It allows us to obtain significantly better angular resolution in comparison with other methods applied in current space-based experiments. When using this method for 50-MeV gamma rays the GAMMA-400 gamma-ray telescope angular resolution is about 4°.     

Inertial aided BDS triple-frequency integer ambiguity rounding method

The integer ambiguity resolution (AR) of carrier phase is significant for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) precise positioning. However, in kinematic case, single-epoch AR methods based on alone GNSS are usually not reliable due to the instable pseudorange accuracy. Moreover, the computation of classical AR method Least Squares Ambiguity Decorrelation Adjustment (LAMBDA) is large. Thus, the inertial measurement unit (IMU) is introduced, a new inertial-aided AR method that directly rounds the float ambiguity of BeiDou triple-frequency combined observations, which is characterized by long wavelength, low carrier-phase noise and ionospheric delay, is proposed. The mathematical model of the new method is derived first. Then the impacts of the carrier-phase noise, ionospheric delay and inertial navigation system (INS) position error on the AR success ratio of combined observation are analyzed through probabilistic approach. Based on above investigation, the combinations (0, ?1, 1), (1, 4, ?5) and (4, ?2, ?3) are selected to resolve the original ambiguity. A vehicular integrated navigation test is performed to demonstrate the proposed method. The results show that the average AR success ratios of the three selected combinations, whose float ambiguity errors are 0.041, 0.146, 0.279 cycle respectively, are above 97.25% without regard to low-elevation C05. With respect to positioning accuracy based on our AR method when compared with IE software, the east, north, up error RMS of position are 0.042, 0.024, 0.069 m, respectively. In terms of the AR recover after the BeiDou signals outage, as long as 62 s BeiDou signal complete outage, all the ambiguities of all satellites could be re-fixed immediately. Besides, during the 90 s signals partial outage, the AR is not influenced by the position error, since the float ambiguity errors are all below half-cycle. The research of this contribution demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed new method, which indicates it is applicable to kinematic positioning, even in BDS degraded and denied environments.     

低仰角射线对电离层CT成像的影响分析

电离层层析成像(Computerized Tomography, CT)是一个有限视角问题, 水平射线的缺失造成CT结果垂直分辨率的严重下降. 很多人直观地认为低仰角射线可以弥补水平射线的缺失, 然而本文的理论分析和数值模拟研究结果表明, 低仰角射线对CT结果的影响十分微小, 其无法弥补水平射线缺失所带来的垂直分辨率的下降. 模拟结果显示, 增加低仰角射线前后CT反演结果几乎没有变化; 而去掉680条低仰角射线和高仰角射线后, CT反演结果差别巨大; 去掉680条低仰角射线的CT结果与模型吻合很好; 去掉680条高仰角射线的CT反演结果失真严重, 几乎无法恢复模型的扰动特征.      

基于分布式信源编码的高光谱图像无损压缩研究进展

有效的高光谱图像压缩技术已经成为航天高光谱遥感领域研究的焦点之一。对基于分布式信源编码（Distributed Source Coding,DSC）的高光谱图像压缩技术研究进展进行了综述。首先介绍了DSC的理论基础、实现方式及其在高光谱图像无损压缩应用中的优势;然后总结了基于DSC的高光谱图像无损压缩研究进展,在此基础上给出了一种基于多波段预测的高光谱图像分布式无损压缩算法,实验结果表明,该算法具有较低的编码复杂度,其无损压缩性能优于现有的分布式无损压缩算法;最后指出了DSC在高光谱图像压缩中需要进一步研究的问题。     

深空组合导航中天文测速观测研究

深空天文测速导航方法以空间中的某颗恒星为目标,利用航天器自身携带的光谱仪测量相对于恒星的移动速度来实时调整自行速度和路线。太阳是主要的测速导航源之一,利用目前运行的空间卫星的光谱观测资料,分析和研究了太阳相对于卫星的视线速度和速度误差变化情况,为本项目中自主导航光谱提供实测证据。选取了太阳表面5个位置的光谱观测,持续时间在一个小时左右,通过高斯谱线轮廓拟合观测数据,得到了太阳表面5个位置的亮度变化、谱线宽度和速度,其中主要参数速度平均值大约在10 km/s,和速度变化在3 km/s。这是由太阳表面存在大量的微观尺度上的物质运动所导致的。     

基于压缩感知的频率和DOA联合估计算法

波达方向（DOA）估计是阵列信号处理的一个重要问题,针对信号的DOA估计问题,本文基于压缩感知理论,提出了一种新的频率和角度联合估计算法。首先利用方向波数的空间稀疏性,建立过完备稀疏字典,然后利用压缩采样阵列结构通过求解最优化问题得到方向波数的高分辨估计,最后利用最优空域滤波实现信号到达角度和频率的配对。相对于传统算法,该算法能够实现多信号DOA的高分辨估计,且经过压缩采样后降低了运算量,仿真验证了该算法的正确性与有效性。     

Predicting atmospheric delays for rapid ambiguity resolution in precise point positioning

Integer ambiguity resolution in precise point positioning (PPP) can shorten the initialization and re-initialization time, and ambiguity-fixed PPP solutions are also more reliable and accurate than ambiguity-float PPP solutions. However, signal interruptions are unavoidable in practical applications, particularly while operating in urban areas. Such signal interruptions can cause discontinuity of carrier phase arc, which introduces new integer ambiguities. Usually it will take approximately 15 min of continuous tracking to a reasonable number of satellites to fix new integer ambiguities. In many applications, it is impractical for a PPP user to wait for such a long time for the re-initialization. In this paper, a method for rapid ambiguity fixing in PPP is developed to avoid such a long re-initialization time. Firstly, the atmospheric delays were estimated epoch by epoch from ambiguity-fixed PPP solutions before the data gap or cycle slip occurs. A random walk procedure is then applied to predict the atmospheric delays accurately over a short time span. The predicted atmospheric delays then can be used to correct the observations which suffer from signal interruptions. Finally, the new ambiguities can be fixed with a distinct WL-LX-L3 (here LX denotes either of L1, L2) cascade ambiguity resolution strategy. Comprehensive experiments have demonstrated that the proposed method and strategy can fix zero-difference integer ambiguities successfully with only a single-epoch observation immediately after a short data gap. This technique works even when all satellites are interrupted at the same time. The duration of data gap bridged by this technique could be possibly extended if a more precise atmospheric delay prediction is found or on-the-fly (OTF) technology is applied. Based on the proposed method, real-time PPP with integer ambiguity fixing becomes more feasible in practice.     

GNSS carrier phase ambiguity resolution based on integrity restriction in ambiguity domain

Carrier phase ambiguity resolution of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is a key technology for high-precision navigation and positioning, and it is a challenge for applications which require both high accuracy and high integrity. This paper proposes efficient ambiguity resolution methods based on integrity restriction using Fixed Failure rate Ratio Test (FF-RT) and Doubly Non-central F-distribution Ratio Test (DNF-RT), and derives the related processing models and numerical algorithms compared with the traditional Ratio Test (RT) method. Firstly, the integer ambiguity resolution and validation procedures, especially the Least squares AMBiguity Decorrelation Adjustment (LAMBDA) estimation and RT validation are analyzed. Then the quality evaluation using success rate, the FF-RT method using Integer Aperture (IA) estimation and the NDF-RT method are proposed. Lastly, the simulation and analysis for LAMBDA using RT, FF-RT and DNF-RT methods are performed. Simulation results show that in case of unbiased scenario FF-RT and DNF-RT have similar performances, which are significantly better than RT. In case of biased scenario it is difficult for FF-RT to predict the biased success rate thus it should not be used for bias detection, while DNF-RT can detect biases in most cases except for the biases are approximate or equal to integer, which has the important benefit for early detection of potential threat to the position solution.     

基于属性散射中心模型的SAR超分辨成像算法

基于属性散射中心模型,提出一种稳健而快速的SAR超分辨成像算法,在超分辨的同时能够考虑到目标的整体结构。首先利用改进的正交匹配追踪算法（OMP）对简化的属性散射中心模型进行参数估计,然后基于估计的模型参数在信号重构时进行二维频谱外推实现SAR超分辨成像。该算法具有较高的运算效率,相对于传统基于点散射模型超分辨算法,能够有效解决部件不连续的问题,并且初始指向角的利用可以取得良好的聚焦效果。仿真实验验证了该算法的优越性。     

雷达导引头对拖曳式诱饵干扰的检测和识别新方法

有源拖曳式雷达诱饵能够实现角度欺骗、距离欺骗、速度欺骗三重干扰效果,它通过电缆与被保护目标相连接,两者具有相同的运动特性,载机和拖曳式诱饵在距离、速度和角度上分辨不出来,导引头的响应会成为两个射频源的复杂函数,这将产生一个角度误差,从而增加了导弹的脱靶距离。为了提高雷达抗拖曳式诱饵能力,从空间角度分辨力入手,在常规单脉冲雷达系统结构上,利用了结构的冗余信息,提取对角线差通道的接收信号,然后与和通道、俯仰差通道、方位差通道联合建立方程组,求解得到目标和诱饵的角度信息,并对两者的信号幅度进行了分离,提出了诱饵识别的方法。仿真结果证实了该方法的有效性。