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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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LEVERAGING MACHINE LEARNING FOR ENHANCED SATELLITE TRACKING TO BOLSTER SPACE DOMAIN AWARENESS

Charles William Grey (16413678) 23 June 2023 (has links)
<p>Our modern society is more dependent on its assets in space now more than ever. For<br> example, the Global Positioning System (GPS) many rely on for navigation uses data from a<br> 24-satellite constellation. Additionally, our current infrastructure for gas pumps, cell phones,<br> ATMs, traffic lights, weather data, etc. all depend on satellite data from various constel-<br> lations. As a result, it is increasingly necessary to accurately track and predict the space<br> domain. In this thesis, after discussing how space object tracking and object position pre-<br> diction is currently being done, I propose a machine learning-based approach to improving<br> the space object position prediction over the standard SGP4 method, which is limited in<br> prediction accuracy time to about 24 hours. Using this approach, we are able to show that<br> meaningful improvements over the standard SGP4 model can be achieved using a machine<br> learning model built based on a type of recurrent neural network called a long short term<br> memory model (LSTM). I also provide distance predictions for 4 different space objects over<br> time frames of 15 and 30 days. Future work in this area is likely to include extending and<br> validating this approach on additional satellites to construct a more general model, testing a<br> wider range of models to determine limits on accuracy across a broad range of time horizons,<br> and proposing similar methods less dependent on antiquated data formats like the TLE.</p>

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