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Remote Sensing and Active Tectonics

Learn about satellite orbits, orbital precession, sun-synchronous orbits, and selecting orbital parameters for remote sensing applications in geoscience.

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Remote Sensing and Active Tectonics

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  1. Remote Sensing and Active Tectonics Barry Parsons and Richard Walker Michaelmas Term 2013 Lecture 2

  2. Satellite Orbits (1) • Satellite orbit is an ellipse, with the centre of mass of the Earth at one focus of the ellipse. • In practice, remote sensing satellites are in almost circular orbits, i.e. the eccentricity e is small (e << 1).

  3. m F R v M Satellite Orbits (2) Newton’s law of motion: Newton’s law of gravitation: Period of orbit:

  4. Istanbul Athens

  5. Mount Parnassos Delphi What was the Time of Day?

  6. Effect of Time of Day on the Image • Time of day affects length of shadow. It is this contrast that reveals reveals topographic features. Want some shadowing, i.e. not midday when Sun is overhead, but not too much, i.e. not early morning. Time of day also affects illumination. • If the orbital plane remained fixed in space, which is what would happen if the earth really did act like a point mass, then the time the image was acquired would vary throughout the year as the Earth rotates about the Sun. • It is convenient if the images at a given location are always acquired at the same solar time.

  7. Orbital Precession • The satellite moving round its orbit has angular momentum like a top. • The mass in the equatorial bulge produces a net torque on the satellite. • The torque causes the orbital plane to precess like the earth’s gravity causes a top to precess.

  8. Sun-synchronous Orbits Rate of orbital precession: For sun-synchronous orbits: km (J2 is the coefficient of the P20 term in the expansion for the gravitational potential that describes the gravitational effect of the equatorial bulge.)

  9. Choosing the Orbital Parameters • The period of orbital motion is determined by the orbital radius R and inclination i. • For any R can choose i such that orbit is sun-synchronous. • Also choose R and i such that the period of orbital motion satisfies the condition • where Ωe is the rate of rotation of the Earth, and no and nr are integers. This condition means that, after no orbits and nr rotations of the Earth relative to the orbital plane, the orbit retraces its ground track. This means that any location can be re-imaged on a regular basis. For Landsat 7 coverage repeats after 233 orbits and 16 days.

  10. Orbital Parameters for Landsat 7

  11. Ground Coverage for Landsat 7

  12. Imaging by Line Scanning

  13. Spectral Bands For Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper

  14. Line Scanning System for Landsat 7

  15. Arrangement of Detectors for Landsat 7 ETM

  16. Location of 1999 Izmit Earthquake

  17. Landsat Image Scanning Revealed by Saturated Band Landsat TM image (542) acquired 1 day after the 1999 Izmit earthquake

  18. SPOT Earth Observation Satellites Dual Instruments Pushbroom Recording

  19. Spectral Bands for Spot Satellites

  20. Stereo Imaging by the Spot Satellites

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