SATELLITE IMAGE SENSOR AND METHOD

Methods and apparatus for Real-time Satellite Imaging (10) are disclosed. More particularly, one embodiment of the present invention an imaging sensor (14) for a satellite having one or more co-collimated telescopes (18). The telescopes (18) illuminate focal planes (22) which are sparsely populated...

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1. Verfasser:	WILLIAMS, Franklin
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng ; fre ; ger
Schlagworte:	ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE ELECTRICITY OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS OPTICS PHYSICS PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
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Zusammenfassung:	Methods and apparatus for Real-time Satellite Imaging (10) are disclosed. More particularly, one embodiment of the present invention an imaging sensor (14) for a satellite having one or more co-collimated telescopes (18). The telescopes (18) illuminate focal planes (22) which are sparsely populated with focal plane arrays (24). The focal plane arrays (24) record the entire observable Earth hemisphere at one time.