Imaging CO2 laser radar field tests
Abstract
A coherent imaging CO2 laser radar has been built and field tested. It collects reflectance and range images from amplitude and phase measurements. Statistical analysis indicates Rayleigh distribution in the reflectance data from a military truck, the dirt ground, and an asphalt road. The reflectivities of these objects are determined to be less than 2.5 percent, obtained by comparison with laboratory reflectometer measurements.
- Publication:
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Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- August 1984
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1984ApOpt..23.2565W
- Keywords:
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- Carbon Dioxide Lasers;
- Coherent Radar;
- Infrared Radar;
- Radar Imagery;
- Target Recognition;
- Probability Distribution Functions;
- Rayleigh Distribution;
- Reflectance;
- Signal To Noise Ratios;
- Statistical Analysis;
- Lasers and Masers;
- LIDAR: HETERODYNING;
- LASERS: CARBON DIOXIDE