High precision heliostat for long path light tracking

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5082, Issue , 2003, Pages 13-20

  Hawat, T ^a   Stephen, T M ^a   DeMaziere, M ^b   Neefs, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

CCD camera; Motion and vision control; Optical system; Sun tracker

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DATA ACQUISITION; HELIOSTATS (INSTRUMENTS); MIRRORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR ABSORBERS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

BRUCKER 120M SPECTROMETER; SOLAR BEAMS;

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 0242719979     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.499060     Document Type: Conference Paper

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