Fast optical ray tracing using multiple DSPs

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 801-808

  Cameron, Charles B ^a,e   Rodríguez, Rosa Nívea ^b   Padgett, Nathan ^c   Waluschka, Eugene ^d   Kizhner, Semion ^d   Colón, Garbriel ^b   Weeks, Colleen ^e  

^a UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital signal processor (DSP); Moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS); Optical ray tracing; Optics; Parallel processing; Reconfigurable computing; Resistance capacitance (RC)

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RAY TRACING; SPECTROMETRY;

MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; OPTICAL RAY TRACING; RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTING;

OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

EID: 33744507135     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2006.873813     Document Type: Article

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