[Issues] Satellite tracks not always detected

[Ewout M. Helmich]

Hi,

Well that sounds very good. I think the best course of action is simply 
to commit the changes to CVS. We can then have a look at it and update 
the eclipse installation here.

Regards,
Ewout Helmich

Hans Vaith wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> when reducing data from the Sikkema dataset we found that satellite tracks 
> were not always detected. Looking at the python wrapper code of the Hough 
> transformation in SatelliteMap.py we did not find anything obvious, so I 
> started looking into the C code of the hough transformation in the eclipse 
> library. There seems to be a conceptual error or oversight. The 
> transformation code does not account for the possibility of negative values 
> for 'rho' (the perpendicular - or minimum - distance of the straight line 
> from the origin of the coordinate system). rho is always negative when the 
> offset of the straight line (b in the equation y = a*x + b) is negative.
>
> I corrected the code locally on my laptop installation of AstroWise and ran it 
> through the observations in question. All satellite tracks were then detected 
> correctly (one track additionally needed tweaking of the HOUGH_THRESHOLD 
> process parameter, because the path of the track through the image is very 
> short).
>
> Our basis was CVS version 1.4 of hough_transform.c We could send a patch or 
> our corrected source code, if there is interest. 
>
> Regards,
> Hans
>
>   

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