Spectral LADAR: Active range-resolved threedimensional imaging spectroscopy

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1468-1478

  Powers, Michael A ^a   Davis, Christopher C ^b  

^a GENERAL DYNAMICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MILITARY APPLICATIONS; TRACKING (POSITION);

EYE-SAFE WAVELENGTH; HIGH RESOLUTION RANGES; LOW FRAME RATES; MULTISPECTRAL SENSING; SHORT WAVE INFRARED; SUPER CONTINUUM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 84859348193     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.001468     Document Type: Article

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