Jigsaw phase III: A miniaturized airborne 3-D imaging laser radar with photon-counting sensitivity for foliage penetration

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6550, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Vaidyanathan, Mohan ^a   Blask, Steven ^a   Higgins, Thomas ^a   Clifton, William ^a   Davidsohn, Daniel ^a   Carson, Ryan ^a   Reynolds, Van ^a   Pfannenstiel, Joanne ^a   Cannata, Richard ^a   Marino, Richard ^b   Drover, John ^b   Hatch, Robert ^b   Schue, David ^b   Freehart, Robert ^b   Rowe, Greg ^b   Mooney, James ^b   Hart, Carl ^b   Stanley, Byron ^b   McLaughlin, Joseph ^b   Lee, Eui In ^b   Berenholtz, Jack ^b   Aull, Brian ^b   Zayhowski, John ^b   Vasile, Alex ^b   Ramaswami, Prem ^b   Ingersoll, Kevin ^b   Amoruso, Thomas ^b   Khan, Imran ^b   Davis, William ^b   Heinrichs, Richard ^b   more..

^a Government Communications Systems Division ^*  (United States)

^b MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D imaging; Image processing; Laser radar; Target identification; Target under trees; Unmanned aerial system

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE DATA COLLECTIONS; SENSOR SYSTEM; UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEM;

IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SENSORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 35948996630     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.722880     Document Type: Conference Paper

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