1. ITT Space Systems Sensor Technologies
Bob Fiete, Ph.D. Chief Technologist Dan Newman, Ph.D. Program Manager, Sensor Products

2. & Reconnaissance (ISR) Space Control & Missile Defense (SCMD)
ITT Space Systems Division (SSD) Principal Businesses And Their Solutions
Intelligence,
Surveillance,
& Reconnaissance (ISR)
ISR systems provide intelligence and defense customers with the ability to collect information that enhances information superiority and contributes to our national security.
GPS Navigation (NAV)
NAV payload, receiver, and control solutions offer superior accuracy and functionality across the entire GPS network enabling precise, round-the-clock, worldwide, 3D position and precise time-keeping for defense and civil applications.
Image Information
Solutions (IIS)
IIS software, services, and integrated solutions help customers manage, visualize, exploit, analyze, and disseminate images and data for quicker, more effective decision making.
Commercial &
Space Science (CSS)
Satellite/airborne high-resolution commercial imaging systems to view/monitor earth.
Space Science technologies and systems to help scientists explore the universe.
Climate & environmental monitoring sensors, systems, subsystems and software to capture, process, visualize and analyze earth images, climate change and other environmental data.
Space Control & Missile Defense (SCMD)
Space, air and ground based systems and subsystems to support our nation’s space control, antimissile defense and operationally responsive space programs and initiatives.
Space Systems Division Overview
April 17, 2017

3. Space Systems’ Business Locations
Division Headquarters Rochester, NY
Fort Wayne, IN
Boulder, CO
Clifton, NJ
Vienna, VA
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4. ITT Vision: Integrating Advanced Sensor Technologies to Get Critical Information to Users on Demand
Meteorological
Navigation
ISR
Commercial
Collect
Night Vision
Disseminate
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Exploitation & Visualization

5. ITT Space Systems Technology in Daily Life
GPS
Weather images
High-resolution space imaging

6. GOES Satellites 1991 – The Perfect Storm from GOES-7 (resolution 1 km)
2005 – Hurricane Katrina from GOES-12
(resolution 1 km)
Image courtesy NASA

7. Rochester, NY to the Statue of Liberty is ~250 miles
QuickBird
GSD = 2 feet
2002 – QuickBird image of the Statue of Liberty taken from ~280 miles away
Rochester, NY to the Statue of Liberty is ~250 miles
Image courtesy DigitalGlobe

8. ITT Innovative Technologies
Passive Systems
Ground Processing
Advanced EO Sensor
Adaptive Lightweight Telescope
Novel EO Payload
Spectral Systems
IR Systems
Ground Decision Support
Processing Workflow
Information Dissemination
Navigation Systems
Active Systems
GPS Payloads
GPS Control Segment
GPS User Segment
LIDAR / LADAR Payloads
Integrated Solutions
End to End Multi-Camera Direct Dissemination Persistent Surveillance System

9. ITT Instruments & Sensor Technologies
How does Sensor performance drive ITT Mission Performance ?
Example Missions Sensor Technology
Commercial Remote Sensing VIS Scanning CCD
Day/Night Persistent Surveillance VIS & MWIR area sensors
Soldier Night Vision IR and VIS Intensified arrays
Weather forecasting IR Linear & area arrays
Natural Gas leak detection MWIR Photodiode (LIDAR)

10. ITT’s Remote Sensing Focal Plane Assembly
Sensor Technology: Visible CCD Scanning Array w/ 64 TDI
Double ITO process (Kodak) - front side illuminated
20,000 lines/s scan rate
< 35 e- read noise
Panchromatic & Multispectral Color
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11. NextView Focal Plane Unit
Limiting Mission Noise Performance
Background Irradiance (*) ~ 90e-
Detector Read noise ~ 35 e-
(*) Most stressing case

13. ITT’s NextView Commercial Remote Sensing
Image Quality – built to meet Commercial Imager needs
0.5 m 680 km
15.2 Km swath
Panchromatic capacity good to 20,000 lps, 6 aggregation modes, 5 TDI modes, 12 data rates
Four band multispectral sensor for pan sharpened imagery
GeoEye-1 Imagery of Moffett Field
October 12, 2008

15. ITT Broad Area Persistent Surveillance
Forensic Analysis
Enables analysis of movers
Time stamped imagery provides real-time and historical view of enemy and patterns
Situational Awareness
Provides the high ground view of operations for command & control
Interactive image serving to multiple users
Real Time Analysis
Real time go to location and time and play backwards and forward to quickly identify targets and suspects
Real Time Cueing
Automatic cueing of events – suspected vehicles, boundary detection, change detection

16. PS: Multiple cameras w/ overlapped field of View
Sensor System
Persistent Surveillance Sensors:
VIS: MP Interline CCD
MWIR: MP InSb or HgCdTe
Frame rate fps
Limiting System Performance Drivers
Sensor format: More pixels per sensor
Well Depth > 200k e- / pixel
Glint smear CCD limitation
Background photon noise
Sensor read noise
Persistent Surveillance achieves a wide field
of view coverage with multiple sensors / cameras

17. Night Vision Sensors LWIR Microbolometer arrays
MWIR & SWIR framing arrays
Multi-channel plate w/ VIS CCD
System Performance Drivers:
- Image motion smear/lag  high frame rate (> 30Hz)
- Size, weight & power
- Dynamic range
- Sensor read noise

18. Nightvision Fusion Product Examples
Visible
Thermal IR
Traditional Color Fusion
Gray Scale Fusion
Thermal Sources Highlighted

19. ITT Weather Satellite Sensors
CrIS (Cross-track Infrared Sounder)
SWIR, MWIR and LWIR (3-15 um)
MCT detectors
Single large area detectors
ABI (Advanced Baseline Imager)
16 band visible to LWIR sensors
Long linear arrays
Near photon shot noise limit in many channels,
Performance Drivers
Background Limited Scene noise
Detector noise
- Read noise & Thermal dark noise
FPA in LCC Mounted in Test Dewar
LWIR MCT arrays for GOES-ABI
micron band
~ 400 pixel array size

20. Natural Gas Leak Detection w/
Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL)
Ratio of “on-line” and “off-line” absorption is converted to ppm-m using an equation based on Beer’s Law, which relates the absorption of light to the properties of the material through which the light is passing.
3047.0
3047.5
3046.5 15 30 45
The “on-line” wavelength is on or close to peak of a chemical’s absorption feature
Absorption
Wave Number (cm-1)
Leak Location
The “off-line” wavelength at low absorption feature
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21. ANGEL Services Aircraft and Sensor System
DIAL
Sensor
High
Resolution
Mapping
Camera
Digital
Video
Camera
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22. Differential Absorption LIDAR Detector:
Detector Type: High Speed HgCdTe Photodiode
Detector area 1mm2
.Bandwidth >100 MHz
Responsivity m
Noise Density 0.9 pA/(Hz)1/2
Detectivity (D*) 1.2 x 1011 cm(Hz)1/2 / W
Manufacturer: Boston Electronics / Vigo
Top Three Mission Critical Noise sources:
1) Laser alignment accuracy
2) Preamplifier Noise
3) Detector noise (D*) at room temperature
PVI-2TE-3, detector used in ANGEL Receiver

23. ANGEL Services is Fully Operational and Serving Major Pipeline Operators
Over 8,000 miles of DIAL leak surveys & corridor mapping
Leak detection services have been completed for:
TransCanada PipeLine
Northern Natural Gas
CenterPoint
ONEOK
Terasen Gas
Pacific Gas & Electric
And others!
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24. Summary ITT’s customer missions drive sensor needs/requirements
Each mission has different flow-down requirements for the sensor
Critical Sensor requirements drivers are typically:
Read noise
Array size & pixel format
Frame rate
Dynamic Range
MTF
Quantum Efficiency
Spectral Sensitivity & bands