Passive Ranging with Incoherent Systems,

Abstract

Research Areas Include * Passive Ranging with a single image from a single- lens incoherent optical system * Extended Depth of Field Incoherent Optical Systems. ( i.e. passive ranging systems that operate over a very large object volume.) Specific Analysis Includes * Woodward's Ambiguity Function as an analysis and design tool for incoherent systems. * Extensions to an Ambiguity function relationship for circularly symmetric incoherent systems. * Theory of Stationary Phase for the design of phase masks. * Optimum matching of optical system and digital processing. * Theory of optimum partitioning of incoherent optical /digital processing. *. Cramer-Rao performance bounds of general incoherent systems. * Practical CCD sampling and effects on ambiguity function relationships effect on passive ranging, extended depth of field, and performance bounds.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA299758

Entities

People

  • Alan Fitzgerrell
  • Edward R. Dowski Jr.
  • W. T. Cathey
  • William Miceli

Organizations

  • University of Colorado Boulder

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Arrays
  • Ambient Noise
  • Ambiguity
  • Bandwidth
  • Digital Filters
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Frequency
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Information Theory
  • Military Research
  • Phase Shift
  • Range Finding
  • Three Dimensional
  • Transfer Functions
  • Wavefronts

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Statistical inference.
  • Theoretical Analysis.