Photonics Applications LLC

Welcome to the  Photonics Applications, LLC (PALLC) website.   Under the direction of Dr. Steven E. Moran, PALLC conducts Electro-Optical (EO) research and development of passive and active EO systems spanning system concept development and performance analysis, design, construction, test, and evaluation.

PALLC has extensive experience in multiple EO disciplines including performance simulation codes, optical detectors, optical propagation and scattering theory, automatic target detection and recognition image processing algorithms and code, interferometry, laboratory and field system demonstrations, and data collection and analysis activities.

A current focus of PALLC activities has been the application of Dr. Moran’s proprietary Dynamic Visibility Enhancement (dVE) image processing algorithms and protocol to forensic image and video analysis. The Visibility Laboratory and Universal Visibility Project segments of this website focus respectively on  a) the objectives and forensic use of dVE image processing, and b) its application to image and video data from a variety of sources.

The header image is a dVE processed Apollo 16 lunar Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) image that reveals fine image detail for the lunar surface, the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), and an anomalous expansive blue dome-like structure above the horizon where the blackness of space is normally observed.  The dVE image is compared with the unprocessed original in the Visibility Laboratory Segment, dVE Image Processing Examples Subsection.
 
 

Fair Use Disclaimer

While source videos and photographs may be copyrighted, and their use may not have been specifically authorized by the copyright holder(s), the source videos and photographs are dramatically and ubiquitously transformed by analysis of dVE. Images and videos on this website are presented for education, commentary, criticism, scholarship, research, or news reporting and constitute a fair use of any such copyrighted material as provided for in 17 U.S.C. § 107. If you believe that any content on this website violates your intellectual property or other rights, please notify us by email to Dr. Steven Elden Moran at semoran@photonicapps.com.