ROSÆ, Inc.

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May 3, 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


MIRIAH's Mission Requirement (U.S. Patent #6,452,532)

 

 

The Limitations of the Present Day Technology.

 

¨      Optical satellites have fine spatial resolution, and are hyper-spectral, but have very poor spectral resolution. They also work only in daylight, provided skies are clear, and then only near the center of the FOV (Field of View).

¨      SAR satellites have the ability to image day or night in all weather, but have only poor to fair spatial resolution, and no spectral capability to speak of.

¨      IR satellites image day & night but have either fair to moderate spatial resolution or fair to moderate spectral resolution, but not at the same time.

¨      None of the above use coherent illumination, and so they all must fly so low that they cover a very small FOV, leading to very slow  "store and forward" data delivery, requiring hundreds of satellites for global coverage. And they use "flat earth" raw data format (not linear, or orthogonal, or mapped to a sphere), and then must use very slow central processing, so delivery takes days, ruining their use for "real-time" Tactical Intelligence, and their cost for global continuous coverage is prohibitive (more than 40 $Billion).

 

How MIRIAH Satisfies the Full Technical Mission Requirement.

 

¨      MIRIAH is a unique, low cost, hyper-spectral, global satellite imaging service with both extremely fine spatial resolution and extremely fine spectral resolution, with minimum registration errors, and extremely high SNR (signal to noise ratio). The illumination penetrates, and is active day or night in all weather, and is available instantly "on call" worldwide. Since MIRIAH is fully coherent, the FOV is huge, its imagery data is linear, orthogonal, spherically mapped, enabling "user ready" GIS in "real-time". The imagery will be 2-D, and/or it will be holographic 3-D, for greatly improved cognition. The image refresh time will be 30 minutes to 6 hours (fine for Tactical Intelligence). The satellites will be small, the hardware will be largely "off the shelf", and the overall system will be inexpensive (less than 500 $Million).

 

 

How MIRIAH Satisfies the Full Functional Mission Requirement.

 

¨      A highly profitable global microwave imaging service, with sufficient sampling rates, coverage area, and hyper-spectral content to meet the requirement to fully exercise models replicating the daily excursions of all of the major specie life cycles, under the daily solar energy cycle, in time to take corrective action to optimize the health & welfare of our planet's life forms. This requires ten image refreshment samples per day to meet the Nyquist rate for these five (5) sample points: (1) dawn, (2) day, (3) dusk, (4) night, and (5) the daily seasonal trends. To automate the determination for specie identification, a minimum automated system requires a square matrix comprised of ten spectral channels for these ten sampling events e.g., for computer analysis of 10 x l0 matrix for Eigenvector, Eigenvalue, for automatic specie identification, etc. (NOTE: No other concept is capable of automatic real time GIS).

 

¨      A Commercially viable Microwave Imaging service, with as large an International Balance of Payment as possible. Therefore, to maximize services, requires a huge imaging swath (or FOV - to keep “Supply” up to the global “Demand”), while to lower Cost, will require an extremely large 2-D synthetic aperture, and as many coherent Power-Apertures as are technically feasible.

 

¨      MIRIAH is the only known globally accessible imaging satellite concept, at microwave frequencies, which is both wide band and narrow band, and so has fine spatial resolution as well as fine spectral resolution. And its imagery data is coherent in three dimensions. The result in mission impact is huge.

 

¨      For now we can have continuous global multi-spectral imagery available at any time and place, which will open up this valuable form of imaging (GIS, etc.) for day and night imaging, in all weather, etc.  (Currently optical satellite imaging - the best resolution imagery - is only available locally during daylight, in clear weather, or arrives too late to act upon). MIRIAH will enable automatic GIS for rapid worldwide Intelligence formation, to speed up the warning time for human cognition (real time Intelligence). This will create a huge interest in both Commercial and Government Intelligence circles     (C3 I). MIRIAH need not replace existing sensors, for it will synergistically amplify their capabilities. And, thanks to its 2nd Power-Aperture and very wide field of view, MIRIAH's imaging products will be amazingly inexpensive. (350 $Million for MIRIAH's improved global satellite operational imaging services could replace 50 $Billion in far less valuable services. We estimate a benefit/cost ratio improvement over SAR of more than 10,000 to 1).