The AMOS Conference is proud to make available the recently published manual for release 5 of the Electro-Optical Space Situational Awareness (EOSSA) standard that can be used by the data providers to deliver their processed electro-optical sensor data to streamline the sharing, analysis, and fusion of data collected at various observation sites around the world that use different types of optical equipment and cameras. The EOSSA standard supports a wide variety of sensor structures and collection schemes, including both ground-based and space-based sensors collecting panchromatic or spectrally filtered photometry, single-filter and multi-filter imagery, and different methods of calibrations, e.g., all-sky, or in-frame photometry. This update to the standard adds support for polarimetry, spectroscopy, and spectropolarimetry.
The EOSSA manual provides the field descriptions to report the data and metadata in the EOSSA data structure. Key features of the manual include:
- Keywords are defined for reporting sensor parameters and sensor data
- New fields for data types currently being collected and analyzed by the community.
- Explanations and instructions are provided for how to calculate the parameters
- The data structure is flexible so that unique fields can be defined by the data provider if needed.
- The data structure can be output in any file format.
The EOSSA release 5 manual was prepared by Applied Optimization with support from Altamira Corporation, the US Air Force Academy, and feedback from the SDA community.
Originally published September 9, 2021 prepared by long time AMOS contributor Tamara Payne, Principal Scientist, Applied Optimization Inc.
“The manual is a useful community resource for Space Domain Awareness data providers and researchers with electro-optical sensors,” said Payne at the time of first publishing. “It is the only document that standardizes how to format the processed data from electro-optical sensors.”
