Apparatus for detecting sea mines

• Main Authors: Misra, Anupam K, Acker, Andrew N, Sharma, Shiv K
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 19.03.2019
• Subjects: ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES; DETECTING MASSES OR OBJECTS; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; GEOPHYSICS; GRAVITATIONAL MEASUREMENTS; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; MEASURING; MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; NAVIGATION; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY; PHYSICS; RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; SURVEYING; TESTING

An apparatus for detecting sea mines is disclosed. The apparatus includes a pulsed laser, a collection optics, a long-pass beam splitter, a short-pass beam splitter, a Laser Imaging, Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) channel imager, a Raman channel imager and a florescence channel imager. After the puls...