Advanced Infrared Technology, Part 1University of Michigan, Engineering Summer Conferences., 1996 - Infrared technology |
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... Keck , the newest , largest and most unusual optical telescope in the world . Keck's 10 - metre diameter mirror has four times the area of the famous 5 - metre telescope on Palomar Mountain in southern California . It can detect objects ...
... Keck , the newest , largest and most unusual optical telescope in the world . Keck's 10 - metre diameter mirror has four times the area of the famous 5 - metre telescope on Palomar Mountain in southern California . It can detect objects ...
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... Keck II . Reaching Keck from the car is an effort : up here , there is only 60 per cent of the oxygen available at sea level . Every step has to be taken in exaggerated slow motion , the lungs straining , the heart racing to pump more ...
... Keck II . Reaching Keck from the car is an effort : up here , there is only 60 per cent of the oxygen available at sea level . Every step has to be taken in exaggerated slow motion , the lungs straining , the heart racing to pump more ...
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... Keck . The light from the most distant object seen so far in the Universe began its journey to Earth when the Universe was only about a fifth its present age . Keck will be able to detect fainter light and thus probe the Universe at an ...
... Keck . The light from the most distant object seen so far in the Universe began its journey to Earth when the Universe was only about a fifth its present age . Keck will be able to detect fainter light and thus probe the Universe at an ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEMS | |
It is PASSIVE Any object not at 0 Kelvin will Radiate | 1 |
the system function which includes | 1 |
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absorption active imaging active sensor airborne aircraft amplitude amplitude modulated angle angular atmospheric axis band bandwidth beam Bidirectional Reflectance blackbody BRDF characteristics coherent component detector element diameter diffraction diffusely reflecting direction effects electronic emission emittance equation ERIM error signals field lens field of view filter frequency Fresnel equations Gaussian heterodyne detection IFOV illuminated imagery imaging systems incident infrared intensity irdome Keck laser radiation lead selenide limited local oscillator measurements modulation mrad multispectral object operation optical ORGANIZATION AND COVERAGE oscillator output passive performance phase pixel plane polarization pulse radiant intensity radiometer range remote sensing reststrahlen reticle rotating scanner scattering scene search system shot noise shown in Figure signal-to-noise ratio SIGNIFICANCE OF TOPIC solar spatial speckle spectral radiance specular surface roughness target and background Technology telescope thermal tracker tracking transmission transmitter variations vector visible wave wavelength