A New Method of Theodolite Calibration Based on Image Processing Technology

Aiming at improving the theodolite calibration method for space tracking ship, a calibration device which consists of hardware and software is designed in this paper. Hereinto, the hardware part is a set of optical acquisition system that includes CCD, lens and 0.2" collimator, while the software part contains image acquisition module, image processing module, data processing module and interface display module. During the calibration process, the new methods of image denoising and image character extraction are applied to improve the precision of image measure. The result of the experiment shows that the calibration criteria of the theodolite errors was met by applying the image processing technology of the theodolite calibration device, it is more accurate than the manual reading method under the same situation in dock.