• DocumentCode
    1771788
  • Title

    Sensitivity in Synthetic Aperture Ladar imaging

  • Author

    Barber, Zeb W. ; Dahl, Jason R.

  • Author_Institution
    Spectrum Lab., Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Synthetic Aperture Ladar (SAL) imaging experiments show that cross-range compression, including image based phase error correction, can be performed at very low return light levels. This includes images where the precompression shot-noise-limited signal-to-noise ratio is much less than unity.
  • Keywords
    error correction; image coding; optical radar; radar imaging; shot noise; synthetic aperture radar; SAL imaging; cross-range compression; image based phase error correction; shot-noise-limited signal-to-noise ratio; synthetic aperture ladar imaging sensitivity; Apertures; Chirp; Electronics packaging; Fiber lasers; Imaging; Optical fiber polarization; Photonics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989605