D&P Instruments™ demonstrates new high speed hyper-spectral sensor!
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On August 16th, 2005 D&P Instruments™ demonstrated our new high speed
hyper-spectral sensor at the United States Geological Survey (USGS)
facility in Reston, VA. Developed under sponsorship of the U.S.
Army's Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center, the system has been
developed to remotely detect chemical agents. This system provides
both spatial and spectral information on remote gas clouds. In
airborne helicopter flight tests the simulant SF6 has been successfully
detected at a stand-off distance of approximately 1 kilometer. (See
our website for papers provide more details regarding these results.)
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Figure 1 The TurboFT Fast FT-IR Sensor
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At the demonstration our visitors were given a presentation on the
principles of operation of the system as well as a review of some
of the test results, along with a live demonstration of the remote
detection capabilities of the system. Tetrafluoroethane was successfully
detected and spatially resolved at high speed at a distance of
approximately 60 meters. The attendees were able to see the system
in action, as well as to experience the simplified user interface.
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Figure 2 Some of Our Demonstration Attendees
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Our thanks go out to our long time customer and good friend, Dr. James
Crowley for arranging the use of the USGS facilities in Reston
for our demonstration.
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