Test Facility for Television Sensors Applied to the Detection of Satellites.

Abstract

A facility was established to demonstrate the adequacy of 1973-1974 state-of-the art television sensors to detect faint spacecraft so as to confirm that technology would be available for a new generation of optical surveillance cameras. This facility is described in detail and the detail and the results discussed of testing an ebsicon (Silicon Intensified Target) camera system, along with associated MTI devices, for detection of stellar and satellite sources. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA048189

Entities

People

  • Peter L. Manly

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Camera Tubes
  • Cameras
  • Contracts
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Geosynchronous Satellites
  • Ground Based
  • Observatories
  • Shift Registers
  • Simulators
  • Space Objects
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Beds
  • Test Facilities
  • Three Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster
  • Space - Space Objects