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WORLD-WIDE WIND VELOCITY, BOTH SPEED AND DIRECTION, FROM THE GROUND THROUGH 50,000 FT. ALTITUDE CAN BE ACCURATELY MEASURED USING A SMALL SPACE-BASED PAYLOAD. THE PROPOW=SED PROJECT WILL DEMONSTRATE THAT RECENT DEVELOPED LASER, DETECTOR AND SPACECRAFT TECHNOLOGIES CAN BE EXPLOITED AND INTEGRATED INTO A SMALL, LOW COST, SPACE-BASED WIND MAPPING SYSTEM WHICH CAN BE CONFIGURED EITHER AS A MODULE AVOAR ...

We introduce an innovative laser which brings inherently new capabilities to lidar that were not available with other coherent lidar laser sources. The unique design of this laser allows production of a greater range of pulse widths and energies than was previously obtainable from a single source. This 1.56 um eye-safe laser utilizes an intracavity Solid State Raman Shifter (SSRS) which is pumpe ...

High-speed, large area detector arays are needed for recording fast events in both military and commercial applications. Deblurring of high-velocity targets within an image require extremely short exposure times. Short exposure times in turn, reduce the time availble for photon intergration and, because of increased amplifier bandwidths, result in higher noise levels at the CCD sense node. The des ...

Ultrafast imaging is an important need for the development, control and evaluation of modern air-deliverable weapons systems. Recent advances in optical imaging such as speckle interferometry can potentially improve DoD capability to deliver munitions and armaments to targets at long ranges, and under adverse seeing conditions. Moderate density arrays of at least 100 x 100 pixels, and frame rate ...

The topic presented in this proposal has direct application to the development and demonstration of high Mach combined cycle engines. The proposed effort would allow the coupling of a pulse detonation engine (PDE) with a realistic solid fueled gas generator. The specific key technical problems identified in this proposal are the absence of experimental gas generator effluent detonability informat ...

This Phase I SBIR will investigate the feasibility of producing reliable High-Resolution Satellite Cloud Climatologies (HRSCC's) from meteorological satellite imagery. There is currently NO DoD HRSCC dtatbase which meets the requirements for medium and long-range cloud forecasts. The HRSCC's show the frequency of occurence of cloud cover, spatial distribution of clouds, and cloud cover amount, and ...

The objective of this project is to design a fractual object based image database system which enables video insertion into real time simulation systems. A cost/benefit analysis of the design will be performed to determine the utility of implementing the design in Phase II. Requirements for the Fractal Object Database System will be determined in consultation with the Sponsor and from interactio ...

System & Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC) proposes to develop a high speed,high density solid state flight data recorder using state-of-the-art CMOS integrated circuit and Multi-Chip-Module (MCM) technologies. the solid state recorder will include 2 MEG x 8 synchronous dynamic random access memories (SDRAM), 2 MEG x 8 FLASH (EEPROM) memories and three custom CMOS integrated circuits to eas ...

Systems and Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC) proposes to develop a chip set to digitize, compress, encrypt, encode, and modulate fast motion video and focal plane array waveforms. The ASIC chip-set will be integrated into a Multi-Chip Module (MCM) and will be compatible with existing subminiature telemetry technology. Advanced encoding and modulation techniques will be used to provide the ...

With the increasing demand for high temperature cryoelectronics and sensitive spaceborne multi-spectral imaging and detector systems, reliable mechanical cryocoolers have become an enabling technology. These cryocoolerscollers share two undesirable characteristics, vibration and heat generation. Vibration reduction has focused on multi-harmonic axial vibration cancellation using active counterba ...