Upgrade of Image Processing Software

The ‘Optical Data Processing Software’ shall be used in order to upgrade the link in the processing chain between the operation of passive optical sensors and the subsequent processing chain. The software shall extract celestial coordinates of observed space objects from images (FITS) and generate tracklets thereof. As a first processing step the software shall perform photometric reduction. The second processing step shall perform source extraction and astrometric reduction in order to identify space objects in Earth's orbit. Once the celestial coordinates of an object of interest have been extracted, these shall be merged to tracklets. A further function shall be included in order to identify and process light-curves of a space object based on rapid consecutive subframe images.