The Standoff Aerosol Active Signature Testbed (SAAST) at MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6239, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Richardson, Jonathan M ^a   Aldridge, John C ^a   Harrison, David C ^a   Hayes, Alexander G ^a   Hines, Eric L ^a   Jiang, Leaf A ^a   Schultz, Kenneth I ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OFFLINE DIAGNOSTICS; OPTICAL SCATTERING; SOLID ROCKET EFFLUENTS; STANDOFF AEROSOL ACTIVE SIGNATURE TESTBED (SAAST);

AEROSOLS; EFFLUENTS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MEASUREMENT THEORY; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

TEST FACILITIES;

EID: 33747361861     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.664071     Document Type: Conference Paper

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