Design and development of a high performance passive mm-wave imager for aeronautical applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5410, Issue , 2004, Pages 210-218

  Lettington, A H ^a   Dunn, D ^a   Alexander, N E ^a   Wabby, A ^a   Lyons, B N ^b   Doyle, R ^b   Walshe, J ^b   Attia, M ^c   Blankson, I ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b Farran Technology Ltd   (Ireland)

^c JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Passive millimeter wave imaging; PMMW; Scanning

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; CAMERAS; IMAGE SENSORS; MIRRORS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SCANNING; SERVOMECHANISMS; TELEVISION;

FLAPPING MIRRORS; MM-WAVE CAMERAS; PASSIVE MILLIMETER-WAVE IMAGING; ROTATING DISCS;

MILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 8844253117     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.546518     Document Type: Conference Paper

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