It’s September again, time for the 26th AMOS Conference- Sep 16-19, in Wailea, Maui. “AMOS” referred to Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance, an Air Force telescope asset and tracking program located in- you guessed it- Maui, Hawaii. From that low latitude (roughly, the lowest latitude within the 50 states), few satellites can escape the field of view of a Haleakala sensor– the field of view reaches down to the equator. Hence, the island of Maui has become a world center for satellite spotting, debris tracking, precision optics, orbit determination, etc. This is their yearly get-together, and hey, who wouldn’t love a trip to Maui? On the agenda:
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In it, you’ll see that the issues, processes, and implementations of satellite/debris tracking overlap with Near-Earth Object concerns. After all, they form the category of, as OGAs (Other Government Agencies) and other TLAs (Three-Letter Acronyms) call it, “non-cooperative objects”.
Short Courses
Sep 16 (Tue)
Panchromatic, Multi-spectral, spectroscopy and Polarimetry Data Collection and Image Processing for Non-Resolved Object Characterization
AMOS 2025 Program
Sep 17 (Wed)
Astronomical Observatories as Tools for Space Object Characterization- A. Dignam
Sep 18 (Thu)
Event Camera Photometry for Non-Resolved Objects- C. Benson
Remotely Monitoring the Activity of Geostationery satellites with Thermal Imaging- S. Caddy
Detection of Closely Spaced Objects for Space Domain Awareness Using Point Spread Function Engineering- L. Azoulay
Extending the Horizon: Advanced Daytime Space Domain Awareness Using Spaceflux’s Novel SWIR Optical System- M. Rocchetto
Cislunar SDA with the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST)- T. Rimmele
Bias and Denoising Techniques to Improve Dim RSO Detection by up to 2.9x with an Event-based Vision Sensor- B. McReynolds
Sep 19 (Fri)
Leveraging Astronomical surveys for Space Debris Detection and Characterization: Application to VST/OmegaCAM- E. Rachith
Improved Astrometry and Sensitivity for a survey of Faint Geosynchronous Debris- J. Blake
Posters
Rapid Classification of near-Earth and Cislunar Objects using Electro-Optical Observations- J. Diamond
Wide Field Telescope for laser Illumination Avoidance and SSA Operations- K. Jim
Leveraging Unresolved Hyperspectral Signatures for Robust Deep Leaning Classification
of Geosynchronous Satellites- J. Kirkendall
Solaris-5 a New 1-meter Wide Field of View Optical Space Surveillance Sensor- B. Konacka
New Twin Tube Telescope for Photometry of LEO Objects- O. Kozhukhov
Deep Learning Based Classification of GEOs using Unresolved Spectral Data- G. Landon
Optimizing Space Surveillance Capabilities: System Analysis and Competitive Procurement for PROVIDENCE’s 2.5 m Telescope- P-L Mayeur
Occultation Observations with Event-Based Vision Sensors- R. Oliver
Unlocking Accurate Photometric Reconstruction of Dim, Unresolved Point Source Objects with an Event-based Vision Sensor- Z. Theis
Multi-Band Polarimetry for GEO Satellite Characterization- T. Tsuchikawa
Designing a Longwave IR Architecture to Improve Space Domain Awareness in Low Earth Orbit- M. Veto
Design of a Space-Based Hyperspectral Characterization Sensor- R. Wright