Abstract

Multispectral, Imaging, Detection, and Active Reflectance (MiDAR) is a method capable of imaging through ocean waves without distortion in 3D at sub-cm resolutions to sense living and non-living structures in light-limited and analog planetary science environments. MiDAR utilizes high intensity narrowband structured optical radiation to illuminate a target and measure the object's spectral reflectance at fine and spatial temporal scales with a signal-to-noise ratio 10–10 3 higher than passive airborne and spaceborne remote sensing systems. The MiDAR data is then reconstructed using the computational imaging capability associated with airborne platform such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and spaceborne platforms such as a CubeSat. UAVs deploy embedded Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) such as Nvidia's Tegra, while CubeSat consists of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) devices such as Xilinx …

Date

2021

Authors

Vivek V Menon, Saquib A Siddiqui, Sanil Rao, Andrew Schmidt, Matthew French, Ved Chirayath, Alan Li

Conference

2021 IEEE Aerospace Conference (50100)

Pages

1-9

Publisher

IEEE