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From: Marc Renouf <renouf@********.COM>
Subject: Re: Ultrasound vision
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 16:13:21 -0500
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Arno R. Lehmann wrote:

> Still, I do assume that SR's computers are powerful enough to need only
> short integration times.

No, no, integration time is not a function of computers. It's a
measure of how many independent samples it takes to form a coherent image.
It's a function of wavelength. The longer the wavelength, the more
samples you need the more time it takes to illuminate the target. We can
do the math in realtime with computers now, but physics is hard to get
around.

Marc

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