Aircraft to ground unidirectional laser-comm. Terminal for high resolution sensors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7199, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Horwath, Joachim ^a   Fuchs, Christian ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aircraft laser communication terminal; Flight experiments

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION TEST; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS; GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTERS; HIGH RESOLUTION CAMERA; HIGH RESOLUTION SENSORS; INTEGRAL PART; OBSERVATION SYSTEMS; OPTICAL TERMINAL; REAL TIME MONITORING;

AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS; COMMUNICATION; DISASTER PREVENTION; LASERS; OPTICAL SENSORS; POWER CONTROL;

AIRCRAFT COMMUNICATION;

EID: 65649121972     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.808869     Document Type: Conference Paper

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