title: Long-Term Continuous Double Station Observation of Faint Meteor Showers.
abstract: Meteor detection and analysis is an essential topic in the field of astronomy. In this paper, a high-sensitivity and high-time-resolution imaging device for the detection of faint meteoric events is presented. The instrument is based on a fast CCD camera and an image intensifier. Two such instruments form a double-station observation network. The MAIA (Meteor Automatic Imager and Analyzer) system has been in continuous operation since 2013 and has successfully captured hundreds of meteors belonging to different meteor showers, as well as sporadic meteors. A data processing pipeline for the efficient processing and evaluation of the massive amount of video sequences is also introduced in this paper.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technická 2, 166 27 Prague, Czech Republic. viteks@fel.cvut.cz.
authors.forename: Stanislav
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vítek
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technická 2, 166 27 Prague, Czech Republic. pata@fel.cvut.cz.
authors.forename: Petr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Páta
authors.affiliation: Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Fričova 298, 251 65 Ondřejov, Czech Republic. koten@asu.cas.cz.
authors.forename: Pavel
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Koten
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technická 2, 166 27 Prague, Czech Republic. fliegek@fel.cvut.cz.
authors.forename: Karel
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fliegel
keywords: CCD camera; faint meteor shower; image intensifier; image processing; meteoroid