System and method of implementing a Space Rocket monitoring system for greenhouse gas emissions during rocket flight, employing smartphone video cameras equipped with custom lens attachments, image deconvolution software, machine vision software, and the Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation. The smartphone is equipped with custom optical lens attachments including a periscope that improves spatial separation (parallax) between camera images and a spectroscope that disperses incoming light from the combustion characteristics of the rocket exhaust according to wavelength and frequency of the light. A combination of image deconvolution software and machine vision software analyzes the images, and matches with existing rocket databases (which may be on remote servers), to identify key rocket characteristics. These are used, in the Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation to compute rocket fuel expenditures. The software computes greenhouse gas emissions and presents the results using a graphical user interface that presents rocket flight images and corresponding analytics.


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    Title :

    Space rocket monitoring system for greenhouse gas emissions


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    Publication date :

    2020-10-27


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B64G Raumfahrt , COSMONAUTICS / G01N Untersuchen oder Analysieren von Stoffen durch Bestimmen ihrer chemischen oder physikalischen Eigenschaften , INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES / G01S RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING , Funkpeilung / G06K Erkennen von Daten , RECOGNITION OF DATA / H04M TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION , Fernsprechverkehr / H04N PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION , Bildübertragung, z.B. Fernsehen



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