Synthetic Aperture Ladar Imaging and Atmospheric Turbulence

Abstract

This is the final technical report for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program (YIP) project entitled 'Synthetic Aperture Ladar and Atmospheric Turbulence'. It includes a technical summary of the entire effort and a more detailed description of the final portion of the effort. The overall objectives of the effort were to utilize high resolution FMCW ladar techniques for high resolution synthetic aperture ladar (SAL) imaging as a tool for investigating atmospheric turbulence, and investigating the effect of atmospheric turbulence on coherent ladar and SAL imaging. The main concept for investigating turbulence using the high resolution FMCW ladar was to use range resolved point targets (retroreflectors) as beacons in a two-way ladar measurement system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 09, 2016
Accession Number
AD1010309

Entities

People

  • Zeb Barber

Organizations

  • Montana State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acousto-Optic Modulators
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Contracts
  • Data Processing
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Distributed Feedback Lasers
  • Electrical Engineering
  • High Resolution
  • Laser Radar
  • Lasers
  • Quantum Cascade Lasers
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Waveplates

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.