Iao: The New Adaptive Optics Visible Imaging and Photometric System for AEOS

Mark A. Skinner (The Boeing Company), Fred Anast (The Boeing Company), John Mooney (The Boeing Company), Daryn Kono (The Boeing Company), Lewis C. Roberts (The Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Arthur Hassall (Air Force Research Laboratories), Lt. Col. Scott Hunt (Air Force Research Laboratories)

Keywords: Instrumentation Design

Abstract:

The Iao camera is a totally new camera system that will be replacing the existing visible imager (VisIM) camera. It functions as the science camera, and is capable of collecting uncompensated, as well as adaptive-optics compensated images. Iao offers a number of improvements over the existing system, including higher speed, greater sensitivity, as well as improved flexibility in control of the imaging system. We describe the Iao camera system, the current state of progress, as well as the plans for integration of the new system into AEOS.

Date of Conference: September 16-19, 2008

Track: Instrumentation Design

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