GOATS Image Projection Component

When doing mission analysis and design of an imaging system in orbit around the Earth, answering the fundamental question of imaging performance requires an understanding of the image products that will be produced by the imaging system. At the highest level, this understanding can be gained by a first-principles analysis of the geometric image projections involved in image capture from space. Going back to first principles allows for requirements to be quickly analyzed and the fundamental specifications of the imaging systems to be tweaked and traded quickly to aid in rapid mission design and analysis. The problem then becomes encapsulating these first-principle algorithms in a set of easy-to-use and modular functions to be used in coordination with other mission design tools.