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Article: UD to be home to Air Force's ladar -- yes, ladar -- center $3.2 million grant sets up institute that uses infrared laser beams.
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- Dayton Daily News
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- October 3, 2006
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DAYTON -- The University of Dayton will be host to a new institute
for electronic sensor technology that's expected to draw technical
talent from across the country.
The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded UD a $3.2 million grant
to establish the Ladar and Optical Communications Institute in the
university's College Park Center, the university announced Monday.
Ladar is akin to radar, but it uses infrared laser beams instead
of radio waves to measure remote objects. Some of its many uses
include mapping, surveillance and targeting.
The UD announcement said the institute will "consolidate the
brainpower of the region's ladar researchers to put ladar on a faster
track to the battlefield ...