Title :
Synthetic aperture ladar flight demonstration
Author :
Krause, Brian W. ; Buck, Joe ; Ryan, Chris ; Hwang, David ; Kondratko, Piotr ; Malm, Andrew ; Gleason, Andy ; Ashby, Shaun
Author_Institution :
Lockheed Martin Coherent Technol., Louisville, CO, USA
Abstract :
This paper describes a demonstration of synthetic aperture ladar imaging at 1.5 micron wavelength from an airborne platform at a distance of 1.6 km showing a 30x cross range resolution improvement over the spot size.
Keywords :
optical radar; radar imaging; radar resolution; synthetic aperture radar; airborne platform; micron wavelength; size 1.6 km; synthetic aperture ladar flight demonstration; synthetic aperture ladar imaging; Aircraft; Apertures; Image resolution; Imaging; Laser radar; Radar imaging; Synthetic aperture radar;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
