OPAL
Neptec offers viable solutions for degraded visual environment mapping in brownout, whiteout and fogout conditions.
With systems for both land and aerial-based vehicles, on both manned and unmanned platforms, Neptec solutions can significantly aid surveillance systems.
Degraded Visual Environment Mapping
Neptec's Degraded Visual Environment Mapping technologies work by using a LiDAR system to penetrate through whiteout, fogout and brownout conditions. Using a proprietary detection method, Neptec systems outline objects within an obscurant cloud.
This system can be used on a variety of manned and unmanned land and aerial vehicles. Capable of measuring a terrain's slope and plotting out a detailed geography of the landscape, this system can also detect wires during forward flight.
About OPAL
Neptec's Obscurant Penetrating Autosynchronous LiDAR (OPAL) uses a proprietary optical design that minimizes the detector saturation caused by the back-scattering of light by nearby particles suspended in air. OPAL also exploits the full extent of the returned light signals to extract targets and obstacles engulfed in obscurants. OPAL has been tested at several facilities.
| OPAL Production Preliminary Specifications | |
|---|---|
| Laser Energy per pulse | > 50µJ per pulse @ 25 kHz |
| Peak Power per pulse | 13 kW @ 25 kHz |
| Average Power | 1.35W |
| Pulse Width | 4 nsec |
| Wavelength | 1540 nm |
| Laser Safety | NOHD < 2 m |
| FOV | +/- 26 Degrees Horizontal; + /- 30 Degrees Vertical |
| Range | > 3000 m |
| Beam Divergence | As small as 0.1 mrad |
| Spot Size | As small as 2 cm at 100 m |
| Dust Penetration | ~15 m @ 5 g/cubic meter dust (~20 microns dust particle size) ~70 m @1 g/cubic meter dust |
| Pulse Detection Mode | Both first pulse and last pulse detection |
| Sampling Rate (PRF) | 40 kHz |
| Range Accuracy | < 5 cm |
| Size | 6" (Height) x 10" (Width) x 10" (Length) |
| Weight | 25 lbs |
| Power | 100W |
