Accession Number:

ADA090504

Title:

Analysis of Lidar Utility for Characterizing Battlefield Environments

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.

Corporate Author:

PACIFIC-SIERRA RESEARCH CORP LOS ANGELES CA

Personal Author(s):

• Warren, R. E.
• Lutomirski, R. F.

Report Date:

1979-05-01

Pagination or Media Count:

52.0

Abstract:

The use of lidar to infer information about battlefield obscurants such as smoke and dust has received considerable attention in recent years. State-of-the-art lidars can provide relative transmission and spatial concentration data for three dimensional obscurant clouds. In spite of this, the theoretical models necessary for interpreting the lidar return have not contained dependencies on all of the relevant transmitter and receiver parameters, and have been almost entirely limited to first order scatter. Since the conditions for these models to be valid are not always met, there appeared to be a need for a more fundamental theoretical basis which would reproduce the usual equations as an approximation and would give a clear basis for understanding their limitations and generalizing them as required. Providing this model was one of the primary aims of the contract.

Descriptors:

• *BATTLEFIELDS
• *ATMOSPHERIC SCATTERING
• *LASER BEAMS
• *DUST
• *SMOKE
• ENVIRONMENTS
• MODELS
• PARAMETERS
• RECEIVERS
• LIGHT TRANSMISSION
• OBSCURATION

Subject Categories:

• Atmospheric Physics
• Lasers and Masers
• Optics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE