Long Range Laser Measurements and Signatures Intelligence

中央佛罗里达大学正在负责一个独特的长路径安全激光测距设施的运作，该设施位于肯尼迪航天飞行中心以南的梅里特岛空军财产上。这一设施，即创新科学技术实验设施，为火箭和卫星超光谱成像、精确激光照明和测距、穿过水、沼泽和旱地的大气传播以及其他应用方面的激光实验提供了无与伦比的选择。该项目计划在该设施中定位几个基于激光的实验项目，这些项目是UCF校园目前正在进行的项目的长期扩展研究。这些方案的目标是：（一）自通道飞秒激光通过大气层传播，以实现独特的传播和相互作用效应;（二）开发用于微量元素爆炸物探测的远距离光学技术;（三）高功率人眼安全的（2 μ m）激光传播、火箭和卫星仪器的测距和成像。该提案的智力价值植根于远程激光传播和影响的基础科学的新途径，这将使该提案成为可能。这门科学将对国家所需的技术有直接的好处？美国情报界的国家安全需要。向NCMR大学合作伙伴、UCF和其他大学提供访问机会，将为实地站学生提供激光传播、相互作用和效应、光谱学、传感和成像等高级概念的培训开放这一设施。

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.