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Center for Advanced Remote Sensing (CARS)
The Center for Advanced Remote Sensing (CARS) is a multi-disciplinary program focused on the general problem of remote sensing, using numerous sensor modalities. CARS focuses on the development of advanced experiments, modeling and signal processing of interest to general sensing applications. Example sensing paradigms being actively investigated in CARS include:
- acoustic sensing of underwater targets;
- radar sensing for airborne synthetic aperture radar and ground-based sensing of land mines;
- induction sensing for land mines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and underground structures;
- infrared sensing of vehicles;
- and low-frequency electric sensing of general targets.
CARS has been the lead organization in two Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives (MURIs):
- from 1996-2001 CARS led an ARO MURI focused on the general problem of sensing land mines,
- and it currently leads a DARPA MURI (2002-2007) on general multi-modality inverse scattering.
CARS has current funding from the Office of Naval Research, the Army Research Office, the National Science Foundation, NASA, DARPA, the Army Night Vision Laboratory, the Army Research Laboratory, the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) and the Army Corps of Engineers. CARS involves several Duke faculty and approximately 45 graduate students and post docs.
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