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 May 19 2008, 10:00 PM
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Under contract from NASA, Rochester Institute of Technology is developing an imaging LIDAR for planetary mapping. Swaths of entire scenes with an accuracy of 1 cm?! Sweet!
-------------------- "I got a call from NASA Headquarters wanting a color picture of Venus. I said, “What color would you like it?” - Laurance R. Doyle, former JPL image processing guy
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May 20 2008, 04:50 AM
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QUOTE (Del Palmer @ May 19 2008, 05:00 PM)  Under contract from NASA, Rochester Institute of Technology is developing an imaging LIDAR for planetary mapping. Swaths of entire scenes with an accuracy of 1 cm?! Sweet! To make this a practical tool, we need laser com. to earth. How close are we? Brian |
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May 20 2008, 06:42 AM
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QUOTE (monty python @ May 20 2008, 05:50 AM) To make this a practical tool, we need laser com. to earth. Not really - I did a blog entry from Valencia in 2006 about upgrades to RF comms that are coming online. There is a 180w Ka band transmitter ready to fly at JPL. Combine that with a 3m dish on the spacecraft and a 70m DSN dish, you would get 8 to 20 Mbps (4x MRO's performance) Upgrade the DSN to the proposed 400 x 12m dish arrays, and put a 6m dish on the spacecraft - then you can do 320 Mbps from Mars to Earth. |
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Del Palmer Imaging LIDAR May 19 2008, 10:00 PM
nprev Nice, but it doesn't cite specific wavelengths... May 19 2008, 10:16 PM
edstrick The press release talks about "optical and ul... May 20 2008, 07:51 AM |
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