DEPSCOR92-Wide Field Spectral Imager.

Abstract

The Wide Field Spectral Imager (WISPI) project was designed to provide a new capability for measuring the spectrum of the sky across fields of view much larger than the full moon. The instrument which we proposed would use a high speed optical system to form an image on the entrance slit of a matching stigmatic spectrometer, which would then disperse a spectrum of a strip of the sky onto a sensitive two-dimensional detector. A separate imaging system would be used for pointing and tracking, and both instruments would be on a computer controlled mounting that would permit automated data acquisition. Data from the instrument could be acquired remotely and then stored and analyzed on a high speed workstation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 29, 1994
Accession Number
ADA293079

Entities

People

  • John A. Kielkopf

Organizations

  • University of Louisville

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Cameras
  • Computers
  • Data Acquisition
  • Detectors
  • Images
  • Manufacturing
  • Measurement
  • Observatories
  • Operating Systems
  • Photographic Images
  • Photographs
  • Photography
  • Physics
  • Quantum Efficiency
  • Software Development
  • Spectra

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Spectroscopy.