Camera that Sees through Smoke and Fog Underway

tomschuring writes "The Age has a story about IATIA, who have been given $2.7 million by the Defence Department to fund development of a military spy camera capable of seeing through fog, smoke and dust storms. The technology uses a highly sophisticated camera that captures three images simultaneously through a single lens. Images thus resolved from between the particles making up fog, smoke, and dust storms are formed into a single picture of the hidden target."

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Unused links on how it works - some detail

[tqft]

Some detailed links on how it works

http://www.iatia.com.au/technology/insideQpi.asp

http://www.iatia.com.au/technology/applicationNo te s.asp

he algorithm has a number of key advantages, including:

* Returns phase and intensity information independently
* Provides quantitative, absolute phase (with DC offset)
* Is a rapid, stable, non-iterative solution
* Works with non-uniform and partically coherent illumination
* Offers relaxed beam conditioning
* Solves the twin image problem of holography
* Has been experimentally applied to a number of radiations

You can find their list of patents on theire site. Digging into these should give you more detail.

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[Rufus211]

ABCNEWS.com : Cameras Let Voyeurs See Through Clothes

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[WhiteDeath]

I found this site about 6 years ago...

they sell the filters, and give a good run-down on the theory.