Brian H Miles

US Patent:

7034938, Apr 25, 2006

Filed:

Feb 4, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/066511

Inventors:

Brian H. Miles - Niceville FL, US
Andrew L. Hoffman - Ft Walton Beach FL, US
Michael S. Foster - Ft Walton Beach FL, US

Assignee:

The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force - Washington DC

International Classification:

G01J 4/00

US Classification:

356364, 356327

Abstract:

A Non-Scanning Computed Tomography Imaging Spectropolarimeter (NS-CTISP) measures all spatial, spectral and polarimetric information simultaneously in an image scene allowing measurement of dynamically changing scenes. In particular, NS-CTISP uses division of aperture to polarimetrically analyze each divided image, all of which are thereafter diffracted to measure irradiance on a focal plane array. The Stokes object cube data for each voxel is thereafter estimated from an inverse of the voxel polarimetric calibration matrix for the optical components.