A WAVE FRONT RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS FOR A DISPLAY OF THE MULTIPLE BEAMS OF SEISMIC AND OTHER ARRAYS.

Abstract

The passive planar arrays used in receiving sonic waves through the earth or water, or those used in radio astronomy use mechanical or electronic scanning in order to observe a large solid angle such as 2pi steradians. The purpose of the present paper is to develop a method for obtaining a real-time visual display of such wave fields. It is analogous to the use of a wide-angle lens for viewing large solid angles in the visible spectrum. The method uses a recently developed technique of incoherent holography as an analog, with the important difference that the sampling aspect of an array enables one to obviate any film processing stage. An appendix treats a few problems for seismic arrays. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0636142

Entities

People

  • W. Duane Montgomery

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Arrays
  • Astronomy
  • Holography
  • Interdisciplinary Science
  • Radio Astronomy
  • Sampling
  • Scanning
  • Seismic Arrays
  • Space Sciences
  • Spectra
  • Visible Spectra
  • Wide Angles

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics