Typical asteroid detection workflow - mostanes/umbrella2 GitHub Wiki

A typical workflow for detecting asteroids using Umbrella2 would be similar to the following:

1. Pre-process input images with a noise removing filter (ex. RestrictedMean or CoreFilter).
2. Create a master image by combining the others, removing as much as possible the moving objects (ex. applying MultiImageMedian).
3. Subtract the master image from the other images (ex. MaskByMedian).
4. (if attempting a fully automated pipeline) Attempt to infer the relevant parameters for the detection algorithms.
5. Apply the detection algorithms (DotDetector, RLHT).
6. Filter the resulting light sources.
7. Pair the light sources into tracklets (currently there is no good pairing algorithm, but PoolMDMerger can be used, albeit with some difficulty).
8. Filter and output the tracklets.