In this paper, we develop a detailed model of the process of image formation in Multi-Spacecraft Interferometric Imaging Systems (MSIIS). We show that the Modulation Transfer Function of, and the noise corrupting, the synthesized optical instrument are dependent on the trajectories of the constituent spacecraft and obtain these explicit functional relationships. We show that “good” imaging using MSIIS is equivalent to painting a “large disk” with smaller “paintbrushes” while maintaining a minimum thickness of paint, given that the goal of imaging is the correct classification of the formed images. This implies that the trajectories of the constituent spacecraft have to be “dense” enough in a given region, while making sure that they are “slow” enough. This is illustrated through an example.

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多航天器干涉成像系统中成像的建模

在本文中，我们开发了多航天器干涉成像系统（MSIIS）中图像形成过程的详细模型。我们证明了合成光学仪器的调制传递函数以及噪声破坏取决于组成航天器的轨迹，并获得了这些明确的功能关系。我们证明，使用MSIIS进行的“良好”成像等效于使用较小的“画笔”绘制“大磁盘”，同时保持最小的涂料厚度，因为成像的目标是对形成的图像进行正确的分类。这意味着组成航天器的轨迹必须在给定区域内足够“密集”，同时确保它们足够“慢”。通过一个示例对此进行说明。