Application of a near infrared imaging system for thermographic imaging of the space shuttle during hypersonic re-entry

48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Zalameda, Joseph N ^a   Tietjen, Alan B ^b   Horvath, Thomas J ^a   Tomek, Deborah M ^a   Gibson, David M ^c   Taylor, Jeff C ^c   Tack, Steve ^d   Bush, Brett C ^e   Mercer, C David ^f   Shea, Edward J ^g  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^e RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^f Aerospace Computing Inc   (United States)

^g Futron Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERONAUTICS RESEARCH; AIRCRAFT FLIGHT PATHS; AS-CAST; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC RE-ENTRY; BLACK BODY RADIATION; BOUNDARY LAYER TRANSITIONS; BOUNDARY-LAYER TRANSITION; ENGINEERING SAFETY; EXTRAPOLATION TECHNIQUES; FLIGHT DATA; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYPERSONIC RE-ENTRY; IMAGE SATURATION; INFRARED IMAGERY; INFRARED MEASUREMENTS; INFRARED RESPONSE; MISSION ANALYSIS; NEAR INFRA RED; NEAR-INFRARED IMAGING; NIR CAMERA; ORION AIRCRAFT; POINT OF CLOSEST APPROACHES; PREDICTION METHODS; RANGE ACQUISITION; RAW IMAGES; SHUTTLE MISSION; SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAMS; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; SPECTRAL MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE MAPS; THERMAL IMAGING; THERMAL MEASUREMENTS; TURBULENT HEATING; US NAVY;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; AIRCRAFT; ANTENNA RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; FLIGHT PATHS; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; HYPERSONIC BOUNDARY LAYERS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED DEVICES; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; MOTIVATION; NASA; QUANTUM OPTICS; REENTRY; SENSORS; SPACE SHUTTLES; TEMPERATURE; THERMOCOUPLES; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); TURBULENCE MODELS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 78649824097     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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