A low cost and automatic meteorites detection system with commercial camera and neural networks

Tian He; Peng Jia; Guangwei Li

doi:10.1117/12.2637011

25 August 2022 A low cost and automatic meteorites detection system with commercial camera and neural networks

Tian He, Peng Jia, Guangwei Li

Proceedings Volume 12186, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems IX; 121861W (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2637011
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Meteorites are remains of space targets, which could provide direct evidence to analyse the history of the solar system. Meteorites normally come from comets, asteroids or meteoroids. When these space targets travel through the atmosphere, they would radiate energy and become fireballs. With appropriate instruments, we could build a system to obtain meteorites. The system includes devices to observe these fireballs and unmanned aerial vehicles to discovery these meteorites on the ground. In a meteorites detection system, an adequate observation device and detection algorithm are important. In this paper, we would show the device developed by our group with commercial camera and neural networks to detect fireballs efficiently. The device could achieve more than 97% accuracy in detection of fireballs in real time. Besides, the device is cheap and small, which could be placed in different places to form an array to locate meteorites.

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Tian He, Peng Jia, and Guangwei Li "A low cost and automatic meteorites detection system with commercial camera and neural networks", Proc. SPIE 12186, Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems IX, 121861W (25 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2637011

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