Star smear removal for full-frame charge-coupled device images based on Gaussian fitting

Yu Duan; Peiliang Jing; Zhaodong Niu; Zengping Chen

doi:10.1117/1.JRS.10.035019

6 September 2016 Star smear removal for full-frame charge-coupled device images based on Gaussian fitting

Yu Duan, Peiliang Jing, Zhaodong Niu, Zengping Chen

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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Vol. 10, Issue 3, 035019 (September 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.10.035019

Abstract

Image smear, produced by the shutter-less operation of full-frame charge-coupled device (CCD) sensors, greatly affects the performance of target detection, the centering accuracy, and visual magnitude estimation. We study the operation principle of full-frame CCDs, analyze the cause and properties of smear effect, and propose a smear removal algorithm for star images of full-frame CCDs. The proposed method locates the smears and extracts the rough profiles of the smeared stars by finding the conditional extrema. Then Gaussian fitting is applied to accurately extract the stars, in order to maintain the integrity of star images while minimizing the smear effect. The extraction of smears and stars requires parameters such as the size of the CCD, the integration time and the readout time, as well as the estimation of background noise. We assess the performance of our scheme with real observed data. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme improves the average signal-to-noise ratio of the images by about 22%, presenting better smear removal performance compared with several published methods. The limitation of the proposed algorithm includes the difficulty of distinguishing between two very close stars displaying the gray level of a single peak and overestimation of the background noise may also influence the performance of the algorithm.

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Yu Duan, Peiliang Jing, Zhaodong Niu, and Zengping Chen "Star smear removal for full-frame charge-coupled device images based on Gaussian fitting," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 10(3), 035019 (6 September 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.10.035019

Published: 6 September 2016

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