Multiple-return laser radar for three-dimensional imaging through obscurations

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 2791-2799

  Schilling, Bradley W ^a   Barr, Dallas N ^a   Templeton, Glen C ^a   Mizerka, Lawrence J ^a   Trussell, C Ward ^a  

^a NIGHT VISION AND ELECTRONIC SENSORS DIRECTORATE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; AVALANCHE DIODES; COMPUTER CONTROL; LASER PULSES; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MIRRORS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PHOTODIODES; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

MICROCHIP LASERS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0037140629     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.002791     Document Type: Article

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