Reflective tomography for imaging satellites: experimental results

James B. Lasche; Charles L. Matson; Stephen D. Ford; Weldon L. Thweatt; Kenneth B. Rowland; Vincent N. Benham

doi:10.1117/12.364127

30 September 1999 Reflective tomography for imaging satellites: experimental results

James B. Lasche, Charles L. Matson, Stephen D. Ford, Weldon L. Thweatt, Kenneth B. Rowland, Vincent N. Benham

Proceedings Volume 3815, Digital Image Recovery and Synthesis IV; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.364127
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1999, Denver, CO, United States

Abstract

The Air Force Research Laboratory is in the process of demonstrating an advanced space surveillance capability with a heterodyne laser radar (ladar) system to be used, among other applications, for range-resolved imaging of orbiting satellites. A small-scale version of this system, the Heterodyne Imaging Laser Testbed (HILT), is used for obtaining pulsed reflection returns from targets that are located on the ground at a distance of approximately 1 km. Presented in this paper are a description of HILT and the preliminary results: image reconstructions of the ground targets using reflective tomographic techniques.

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James B. Lasche, Charles L. Matson, Stephen D. Ford, Weldon L. Thweatt, Kenneth B. Rowland, and Vincent N. Benham "Reflective tomography for imaging satellites: experimental results", Proc. SPIE 3815, Digital Image Recovery and Synthesis IV, (30 September 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.364127

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