System for detecting the path of moving objects

A system for detecting the path of moving objects, comprises:

• a first network of N1 telescopes each having a field angle of M1 degrees and orientated to cover an arc of C° in a plane P1, M1 being between 1 and 4°, N1 being greater than C/M1, observation angles ALPHAN1 of each of the telescopes being in the plane P1;
• at least a second network of N2 telescopes each having a field angle of M2 degrees and are orientated to cover an arc of C° in a plane P2, M2 being between 1 and 4°, N2 being greater than C/M1, the observation angles ALPHAN1 of each of the telescopes being in the plane P2 perpendicular to P1 comprising the observation axis of a reference stellar object, the orientation of the telescopes being controlled to maintain the intersection between the planes P1 and P2 in the axis of a reference object;
• a third network of N3 telescopes each having a field angle of M3 degrees and orientated to cover a conical segment of 360°;
• wherein each of the telescopes is provided with a photosensitive sensor that periodically supplies an image I;
• and
• wherein the system further comprises a computer executing:
• for each of the images I, a recognition processing of the coordinates of a segment SI (T, H, C) corresponding to a movement of an object in the corresponding telescope field T, where the variable H designates a time stamp of the image and C denotes coordinates of the segment in the image;
• and
• processing applied to all of the recorded segments to estimate the paths of the objects.