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The rapid growth of satellite constellations, particularly Starlink, is increasingly affecting ground-based astronomy. In this project, we developed a workflow to detect, identify, and measure the brightness of trails from artificial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Alexandra Serrano Mendoza , Meredith L. Rawls , Andrés Alejandro Plazas Malagón

This research addresses the growing challenge of artificial satellite trail interference in ground-based astronomical observations by developing an efficient deep learning identification method. With the proliferation of satellite…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-05 Hua-Jian Yu , Jia-Lei Zheng , Yuan Fang

The study explored the usage of astronomical observations for the identification and tracking of artificial satellites. Spacecraft streaks on astronomical images are a growing issue for the astronomical community. The increasing number of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Rositsa Miteva , Nikola Antonov , Adrian Sonka

Identification of linear features (streaks) in astronomical images is important for several reasons, including: detecting fast-moving near-Earth asteroids; detecting or flagging faint satellites streaks; and flagging or removing diffraction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Guy Nir , Barak Zackay , Eran O. Ofek

The next generation of wide-field deep astronomical surveys will deliver unprecedented amounts of images through the 2020s and beyond. As both the sensitivity and depth of observations increase, more blended sources will be detected. This…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 G. M. Merz , Y. Liu , C. J. Burke , P. D. Aleo , X. Liu , M. C. Kind , V. Kindratenko , Y. Liu

Recent technological advances in astronomy, particularly the growing popularity of smart telescopes for the general public, make it possible to develop highly effective detection solutions that are accessible to a wide audience, rather than…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Olivier Parisot

In recent years, deep learning has been successfully applied in various scientific domains. Following these promising results and performances, it has recently also started being evaluated in the domain of radio astronomy. In particular,…

Recent developments in the remote sensing systems and image processing made it possible to propose a new method of the object classification and detection of the specific changes in the series of satellite Earth images (so called targeted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Vladimir Ignatiev , Alexey Trekin , Viktor Lobachev , Georgy Potapov , Evgeny Burnaev

Artificial satellites and space debris increasingly contaminate astronomical images, affecting scientific surveys and producing large volumes of streaked exposures. Manual inspection is no longer feasible at scale, and reliable detection…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Rafael Carrillo Navarro , René Duffard , Pablo García-Martín , Javier Romero , Nicolás Morales , Luis Gonçalves

The interest for change detection in the field of remote sensing has increased in the last few years. Searching for changes in satellite images has many useful applications, ranging from land cover and land use analysis to anomaly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Antonio Di Pilato , Nicolò Taggio , Alexis Pompili , Michele Iacobellis , Adriano Di Florio , Davide Passarelli , Sergio Samarelli

Machine Learning algorithms are good tools for both classification and prediction purposes. These algorithms can further be used for scientific discoveries from the enormous data being collected in our era. We present ways of discovering…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-26 Shraddha Surana , Yogesh Wadadekar , Divya Oberoi

Radio telescopes observe extremely faint emission from astronomical objects, ranging from compact sources to large scale structures that can be seen across the whole sky. Satellites actively transmit at radio frequencies (particularly at…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-17 M. Peel , S. Eggl , M. L. Rawls , H. Qiu , D. L. Clements

Optical Earth observation satellites acquire images worldwide , covering up to several million square kilometers every day. The complexity of scheduling acquisitions for such systems increases exponentially when considering the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Adrien Hadj-Salah , Rémi Verdier , Clément Caron , Mathieu Picard , Mikaël Capelle

With the rapid increase in the number of artificial satellites, astronomical imaging is experiencing growing interference. When these satellites reflect sunlight, they produce streak-like artifacts in photometry images. Such satellite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xiaohan Chen , Hongrui Gu , Cunshi Wang , Haiyang Mu , Jie Zheng , Junju Du , Jing Ren , Zhou Fan , Jing Li

The impact of large-scale constellations of satellites, is a concern for ground-based astronomers. In recent years there has been a significant increase in the number of satellites in Low-Earth Orbit and this trend is set to continue. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-23 James Osborn , Laurence Blacketer , Matthew J. Townson , Ollie J. D. Farley

In recent years, with the development of aerospace technology, we use more and more images captured by satellites to obtain information. But a large number of useless raw images, limited data storage resource and poor transmission…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Junxing Hu , Ling Li , Yijun Lin , Fengge Wu , Junsuo Zhao

Astronomical surveys and the growing involvement of amateur astronomers are producing more sky images than ever before, and this calls for automated processing methods that are accurate and robust. Detecting Deep Sky Objects -- such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 Olivier Parisot , Diogo Ramalho Fernandes

Large-scale astronomical surveys can capture numerous images of celestial objects, including galaxies and nebulae. Analysing and processing these images can reveal intricate internal structures of these objects, allowing researchers to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 Peng Jia , Jiameng Lv , Runyu Ning , Yu Song , Nan Li , Kaifan Ji , Chenzhou Cui , Shanshan Li

We propose a new sequential classification model for astronomical objects based on a recurrent convolutional neural network (RCNN) which uses sequences of images as inputs. This approach avoids the computation of light curves or difference…

We present an application of Deep Learning for the image recognition of asteroid trails in single-exposure photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Using algorithms based on multi-layered deep Convolutional Neural Networks, we report…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-02 Andrei A. Parfeni , Laurentiu I. Caramete , Andreea M. Dobre , Nguyen Tran Bach
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