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Hybrid lidar-radar system for ocean experimentation
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Hybrid lidar-radar system for ocean experimentation

L Mullen, T Yost, P.R Herczfeld, D Allocca, V.M Contarino and MARINE TECHNOL SOC
'Challenges of Our Changing Global Environment'. Conference Proceedings. OCEANS '95 MTS/IEEE, v 1, pp 305-308
1995

Abstract

Electromagnetic heating High speed optical techniques Laser radar Oceans Optical attenuators Optical receivers Optical scattering Optical signal processing Optical transmitters Radar detection
The merging of lidar and radar in the invention of a hybrid lidar-radar system has been shown to reduce incoherent backscatter clutter by 17 dB, with a corresponding enhancement of underwater target contrast. The success of these laboratory experiments led to the design of a system to be utilized in an ocean experiment. In the past, the main experimental restrictions in the full-scale realization have been the lack of a stable modulated transmitter and a large-area, high-speed optical receiver. Recent advances which have made these two components realizable for use in a hybrid system are detailed.

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Engineering, Marine
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