U.S. Air Force space surveillance experts are looking to the Raytheon
Co. Space and Airborne Systems segment in El Segundo, Calif., to blend multispectral
images of the Earth taken over time to extract important reconnaissance
information that otherwise might not be visible to intelligence
analysts.
Officials of the Space Vehicles Directorate of the Air Force Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Experiments and Programs Branch (AFRL/RVEP) at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., announced a $33.7 million five-year contract to Raytheon Wednesday for the hypertemporal imaging space experiment payload.
The electro-optical
space instrument that Raytheon will build is to help Air Force
researchers improve their understanding of hypertemporal imaging, which
involves blending images taken of different spots on the Earth in
several different spectral wavelengths at regular intervals over time.
Not only do hyper temporal images give intelligence analysts a look at how light interacts with the scene over many different wavelenghts -- such as infrared, ultraviolet, and visible light -- but also how the scene changes over time.
Officials of the Space Vehicles Directorate of the Air Force Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Experiments and Programs Branch (AFRL/RVEP) at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., announced a $33.7 million five-year contract to Raytheon Wednesday for the hypertemporal imaging space experiment payload.
The electro-optical
space instrument that Raytheon will build is to help Air Force
researchers improve their understanding of hypertemporal imaging, which
involves blending images taken of different spots on the Earth in
several different spectral wavelengths at regular intervals over time.Not only do hyper temporal images give intelligence analysts a look at how light interacts with the scene over many different wavelenghts -- such as infrared, ultraviolet, and visible light -- but also how the scene changes over time.
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