Utilization of Flash LADAR for Cooperative & Uncooperative Rendezvous and Capture

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5088, Issue , 2003, Pages 146-157

  Habbit Jr , Robert D ^a   Nellums, Robert O ^a   Niese, Aaron D ^a   Rodriguez, Jose L ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Capture; Docking; LADAR; Miniature; Phase detection; Range imaging; Rendezvous; Space flight; Uncooperative docking; Video rate

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DOCKING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; RANGE FINDING; SENSORS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE RENDEZVOUS;

PHASE DETECTION; SCANNERLESS RANGE IMAGING (SRI);

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 0242550650     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.512864     Document Type: Conference Paper

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