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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2012
Roger Stettner, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Howard Bailey, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Brad Short, Goleta, CA (US);
Laurent Heughebaert, Santa Paula, CA (US);
Patrick Gilliland, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Joseph Spagnolia, Ventura, CA (US);
Bart Goldstein, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Roger Stettner, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Howard Bailey, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Brad Short, Goleta, CA (US);
Laurent Heughebaert, Santa Paula, CA (US);
Patrick Gilliland, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Joseph Spagnolia, Ventura, CA (US);
Bart Goldstein, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
CONTINENTAL ADVANCED LIDAR SOLUTIONS US, INC., Carpinteria, CA (US);
Abstract
A lightweight, low volume, high performance LADAR sensor incorporating 3-D focal plane arrays is adapted specifically for terrain mapping. The present invention generates, at high speed, 3-D topographical, water surface, floating object, bathymetric, biological gas cloud, poison gas cloud, or smoke stack emission mapping data. The 3-D focal planes are used in a variety of physical configurations which provide advantages over prior art terrain mapping LADAR sensors.