SBIR/STTR Research Award
Ultra-compact, High Resolution, LADAR System for 3D Imaging
Award amount
$69,968Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2004Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Siwave, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- 2004-01-16
- Contract end date
- 2004-07-19
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- F5.02
Research abstract
SiWave proposes to develop an innovative, ultra-compact, high resolution, long range LADAR system to produce a 3D map of the exterior of any object in space such as the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station or a future Space Solar Power Satellite to inspect for damage. Our approach combines coherent optical detection with a small transmitting beam for high-speed scanning and fast electronics for image processing. The use of coherent detection overcomes the problems of weak signals (due to the limited power) and signal fluctuations caused by surface roughness. The resulting LADAR system weighs less than 300 gm and has a resolution of 1 mm at 10 m.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Ultra-compact, High Resolution, LADAR System for 3D Imaging
- Panoramic Stereoscopic Video System for Remote-Controlled Robotic Space Operations
- SmartTopo Intelligent Real-Time Topographic Information Collection System
- Panoramic Stereoscopic Video System for Remote-Controlled Robotic Space Operations
- SmartTopo Intelligent Real-Time Topographic Information Collection System