Curtis Dale Mobley

US Patent:

7369229, May 6, 2008

Filed:

Nov 24, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/996530

Inventors:

David D. R. Kohler - Tampa FL, US
Robert G. Steward - St. Petersburg FL, US
Curtis D. Mobley - Sammamish WA, US

Assignee:

Florida Environmental Research Institute, Inc. - Tampa FL

International Classification:

G01J 3/28

US Classification:

356328, 356305

Abstract:

An imaging system and methods for resolving elements of interest through and obscuring environment by removing undesired signals from the intervening, obscuring environment is disclosed. A passive hyperspectral imaging sensor is calibrated and integrated into a system having a positioning and attitude detection system and an instrument control and data acquisition system that records data from sensors in a three-dimensional data cube having two spatial dimensions and a spectral dimension. Either an active detection and ranging system or a look-up-table approach or both are used to remove the noise generated by the intervening, obscuring environment from the data relevant to the elements of interest.