Velocity estimation of an airplane through a single satellite image

The motion information of a moving target can be recorded in a single image by a push-broom satellite.A push-broom satellite image is composed of many image lines sensed at different time instants.A method to estimate the velocity of a flying airplane from a single image based on the imagery model of the linear push-broom sensor is proposed.Some key points on the high-resolution image of the plane are chosen to determine the velocity（speed and direction）.The performance of the method is tested and verified by experiments using a WorldView-1 image.