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REFLECTIVE OPTICS [5 records]

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Record 1 2023-09-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optical Instruments
  • Facilities and Instruments (Astronomy)
CONT

A catadioptric telescope is an optical system that is optimized for producing images of objects at an infinite distance, and which incorporates both refractive type optics(lenses) and reflective optics(mirrors). The use of both mirror and lens optics produces certain advantages in performance as well as in the manufacturing process.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments d'optique
  • Installations et instruments (Astronomie)
CONT

Le télescope catadioptrique est un mélange entre le télescope réflecteur et la lunette astronomique (ou télescope réfracteur). Il se compose donc de miroirs et de lentilles.

Spanish

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Record 2 2002-12-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Spacecraft
  • Remote Sensing
CONT

Atmos was to have been launched in the mid-1990's with four major Earth observation systems : the Advanced Millimeter Wave Atmospheric Sounder(AMAS), the Michelson Interferometer for Passive Sounding(MIPAS), the Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Cartography(SCIAMACHY), and the Reflective Optics Imaging Spectrometer(ROSIS). The first three devices were designed to analyze atmospheric chemistry, whereas the objective of ROSIS was to return moderate and high resolution, multispectral photographs of the Earth's surface.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Engins spatiaux
  • Télédétection

Spanish

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Record 3 2002-11-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Instruments
  • Optics
  • Remote Sensing
CONT

During the European Multisensor Airborne Campaign 1994(EMAC 94), the Experimental Synthetic Aperture Radar(ESAR) and the Reflective Optics System Imaging Spectrometer(ROSIS) were flown over an experimental catchment in Belgium. Concurrent to the ESAR overflights, field data were collected in two subcatchments of the Zwalmbeek. The main objective of this remote-sensing experiment was to retrieve spatial information of surface soil moisture content.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments scientifiques
  • Optique
  • Télédétection

Spanish

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Record 4 2001-02-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Remote Sensing
  • Optical Instruments
DEF

Containing both reflective and refractive optics.

OBS

Telescope that combines reflection and light bending (refraction), like Schmidt-Cassegrains, Maksutovs, ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télédétection
  • Instruments d'optique
DEF

Se dit d'un instrument qui comprend en même temps des systèmes optiques réfracteurs et réflecteurs de la lumière.

CONT

Objectif, télescope catadioptrique.

Spanish

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Record 5 1991-05-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optics
  • Optical Instruments
  • Computer Graphics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Optique
  • Instruments d'optique
  • Infographie

Spanish

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