Long Range Laser Measurements and Signatures Intelligence

中佛罗里达大学负责在肯尼迪航天飞行中心以南的梅里特岛的空军财产上运行一个独特的长路径安全激光测距设施。该设施名为创新科学与技术实验设施（istf），为火箭和卫星高光谱成像、精确激光照明和测距、穿越水、沼泽和旱地的大气传播以及其他应用提供了无与伦比的激光实验选择。该项目计划在该设施中设置几个基于激光的实验项目，这些项目是目前UCF校园内正在进行的项目的远程扩展研究。他们的计划是追求(i)通过大气传播自信道飞秒激光，以获得独特的传播和相互作用效果；（ii）开发用于微量元素爆炸物探测的远距离光学技术；（iii）高功率眼睛安全（2ìm）激光传播、测距和火箭和卫星仪器成像。该提案的智力价值植根于远程激光传播和效应的基础科学的新途径，这将由该提案实现。这门科学将对国家需要的技术有直接的好处。美国情报机构的国家安全需要。向NCMR大学合作伙伴、UCF和其他大学开放访问该设施，用于实地站学生在激光传播、相互作用和效应、光谱学、传感和成像等先进概念方面的培训。

The University of Central Florida is taking responsibility for the operation of a unique long-path secure laser range facility on Air Force property on Merritt Island, just south of the Kennedy Space Flight Center. This facility, the Innovative Science & Technology Experimentation Facility, (ISTEF), provides unsurpassed options for laser-based experiments in rocket and satellite hyper-spectral imaging, precision laser illumination and ranging, atmospheric propagation across water, swamp and dry land, and other applications. This project plans to locate at this facility several laser-based experimental programs that are long-range extension studies of programs currently ongoing on the UCF campus. They are programs pursuing (i) the propagation of self-channeled femtosecond laser light through the atmosphere for unique propagation and interaction effects, (ii) the development of stand-off optical technologies for trace element explosives detection(iii) high-power eye-safe, (2ìm) laser propagation, ranging and imaging of rockets and satellite instrumentation. The intellectual merit of the proposal is rooted in the new avenues of fundamental science of long range laser propagation and effects that will be enabled by this proposal. This science will have direct benefit to technologies needed by the nation?s intelligence community for national security needs. Providing access to the NCMR university partners, to UCF and other universities will open access to this facility for field station student training in advanced concepts of laser propagation, interaction and effects, spectroscopy, sensing and imaging.