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Well Crow,
I gave that sniffex website a look see.
When I read this line
"It uses the interference between the magnetic field of the earth, the explosive, and the device itself, allowing the device to penetrate and locate even small amounts of explosives through concrete and metal barriers."
the red flags went up. Sounds like a bunch of hocus pocus like the "low atmospheric absorption window for x-rays" nonsense the Loch Harris scientists tried to blow over our heads.
I'm not saying it's a scam but magnetic fields are very weak compared to their electrical counterpart which would make detection much more difficult- seems to me anyway.
I noticed that the device only detects bulk explosives and didn't see any information on the detection time associated with the cited stand-off distances.
CDEx shareholders should all know by now that in order to evaluate the performance capability of a explosive detection device the associated intergration time, stand-off distance and footprint must be evaluated together.
I continue to find it highly suspicious that in all the CDEx test reports they never fully disclosed the pertinent test data so the viability of the ELF/EM-1 product could be determined by the investing public. Cover-up IMO.
Was Poteet both President, Vice President and Principal Scientist of CPS ystems, Inc. and at the same time President and Chief Scientist of Systems Specialist, Inc.?
From the current filing:
From May 1999 to July 2001, Dr. Poteet served as President/Principal Scientist for CP Systems, Inc.,[\b] a private company that, at that time, built large observatory-class telescopes and. marketed and distributed recreational global positioning units. At CP Systems, Dr. Poteet directed contract research in remote sensing in the x-ray and ultraviolet
regions, including landmine, anti-terrorist and drug detection programs, and provided research and development for nanometrology technologies. Nanometrology measures displacements at the nanometer level via a small laser diode, optics and electronics. Applications include the semiconductor industry for measuring wafers during manufacturing, and very small mirror displacements required for astronomy. Dr. Poteet's role as Vice President for CP Systems was making corporate decisions regarding new business opportunities to pursue, proposal and contract priorities, contract negotiation (both business and science aspects), and program management for contract fulfillment, including schedule reporting
budget tracking. During the time Dr. Poteet was with CP Systems, it occasionally provided materials to CDEX for a fee. There is currently no affiliation or ongoing relationship between CP Systems and CDEX.
INET6
How is it that Poteet was chief scientist for System Specialists, Inc. which was bought out by Loch Harris in September '99 and at the same time President of CP Systems, Inc.
Poteet and Cauthen are quite the tean players no?
Paige,
Have you dumped all your PP shares?
So CDEx is less smoke and mirros than SNFX, is that like being less pregnant? LOL
You've got to be joking right? LOL
"If its 10% not smoke and mirrors and if there is a genuine effort to brind a product or products with merit to market, would that give the company value and would the shareholders benefit?"
Once again, what you are really asking is would investors benefit from a company that's 90% smoke and mirrors?
A: Only the insiders as per usual.
"...there is a high probability that this company is more than just a smoke and mirrors affair."
That just means that CDEx is not 100% smoke and mirrors which basically says nothing.
However, the history of the Loch/CDEx players, both those in the public eye and those behind the scenes, has been virtually 100% smoke and mirrors from the get-go.
They're all lining up to squeeze the life blood out of Joe Innocent investor.
Same ole professional players behind the scenes using the otc market to milk investors dry IMO.
I remember two posters having lunch with Poteet in Tucson a couple years ago and reporting it on RB. I think it was spiaggna(sp?) and gsmithaz, both alleged Loch/Cdex brokers. This was at about the time when Poteet suddenly became the inventor and was being scrutinized for allegedly not reporting the fraudulent Blair representation to authorities.
Poteet was painted as a humble man of modest means who didn't even have enough money to replace his broken well pump.
Closer now reports he made a ton of money off Loch and has a nice spread in Arizona.
Things just never add up with loch Harris/CDEx.
lmorovan, sorry I gave you the wrong post number.
Guess it doesn't matter now.
RA,
I wouldn't believe a word that poster types (not Milchip). He has been caught in too many bold face lies. Three whoppers that I can remember in detail, but there were several others.
While Milchip and I have never seen eye to eye if he were to give me his word I'd believe him. The otherkid, no way Jose!!
lmorovan,
Can you please delete paragraph two of my post #3554.
I failed to edit it in time.
Nice post Sanddollar. Inet with smart to just leave that one alone.
I'm glad to see that most Longs can see thru Kidinsight, a true used car salesman mentality that one.
How many CDEx shares are now outstanding? Seems they're rapidly reaching the 40 million mark.
True to Loch Harris tradition, CDEx's main product has been the selling of their stock.
Sure they had to build a couple of prototypes to dangle a carrot, even Loch build a few solar pumps and an ELF for advertising.
5 Years and 15 million for 5 carrots. There's gots ta be some nice profit for the peeps in that business model! LOL!!!
Wish I could have been a 30 center. Too bad I won't lie, cheat and steal for money.
Right Rottenapple? (no need to answer and waste your last post) LOL
Boy, if I was trying to dump my 30 centers (TM- himanez) into a market paying over a buck I'd be a little nervous about the stability of the PPS.
Might even hire a hypster or two to post on the message boards.
Like Kidinsight or pookie.
Drying out... or getting soaked.
Nope Sanddollar, I have no idea his whereabouts during the mysterious "missing years"! LOL
What years were they?
RA,
"There will never be enough shareholders who stick together to get any answers or hold anyone accountable."
I believe that MP has inadvertently showed enough of his hand to see that the original tech never came close to performing as advertised. As revolutionary as they claimed, no one seems to be too interested in it. Even MP threw it into the bone yard in favor of a common, but workable tech.
At this juncture, I think the Boyz are as vulnerable as they will ever get to getting sued for stock fraud. Innocent investors that got ripped-off have until March 26, 2006 to file a law suit.
If they can't demonstrate a XRF-based instrument that can detect trace explosives at 2 meters (or even 34 inches) in near real time they'll be owing certain people some money IMO.
If they can do it, it will be a "new physics" to be sure! LOL
It's fairly easy to put things into perspective...
MP claimed the technology worked 100% with no known obstacles left to overcome before putting the products into production.
He came up with a whole suite of security products with cute little names. He even announced they had begun selling the PS3.
He published test reports that only told half the story on how well the device worked. The Navy and Army reject it. The PTO rejectd their ELF/EM-1 patent application.
To this day shareholders have never learned if it even comes close to detecting trace explosives at 2 meters in real time (or even near real time) as published by Loch Harris (and MP on RB).
Now, five years and 15 million dollars later they have produced what appears to be nothing more than a common instrument readily available from a dozen manufacturers.
Investors don't even know if CDEx is actually manufacturing them or buying them as a private label from someone else.
Total undeniable cover-up of fraudulent claims IMO.
It's like investing in a company that claims a revolutionary pill that cures cancer, then later the company tells investors it doesn't work as they thought so they will start marketing a diet pill instead (based on the same technology) They then have hypsters post links to all the world's obesity problem to help hype the need for such a pill.
Even though there is literally hundreds of diet pills on the market their pill is the only one that will solve the world's obsesity problem because their still using the same revolutionary technology that was used in the cancer pill that didn't work!! LOL!!
How gullible can ya get!!
LOL!!
..."and be sure to keep in mind that WP was letting HB (a liar who didn't even have a degree) lay claim to his great technology discovery."
Which is what? A common UV flurometer which any of a dozen companies (with patented technology) can manufacture in a heartbeat if the Valimed market showed any significant promise.
Or was it the XRF-based ELF/EM-1 which was claimed to be capable of detecting trace explosives at 2 meters in real time?
Later downgraded by RB poster "wpoteet" to 34 inches in 5 seconds.
Later downgraded by MP to the back burner
Crooks!!! All of them IMO.
Valimed = jammon40/rioranch/kismet46?
Crow,
Even had some of the natives gawkin' at you in your Kilt?
Most not be worn that much now days cept for folk dance.
MP has to keep hope alive until March 26, 2006- the official two year anniversary of the dissolution of scamco, Loch Harris.
It's his duty.
A couple more weasel worded SEC filings should do the trick.
No need Markious, the claims of their patent were so broad and obvious that most anyone with knowledge of the process could have predicted that it would be rejected.
Rejected or awarded, the patent attorneys still took their money and probably just shrugged their shoulders in wonderment.
Please Pokster...
"What did you not comprehend about the DOJ Document aurthored by Scandia...hmmmm?...'
Nothing. Thanks for the DD.
Perhaps in your excitement over seeing CDEX appear in the article you missed the point (posted by arloco).
The article does CDEx more harm than good. In fact, out of all companies listed CDEX is the only one that is making claims without actually having a product. I wonder why they didn't include that mock-up picture of the PSSS production model that MP told shareholders (back in '03) that they'd start selling the first of the year (2004).
It appeared that MP is a little confused because he's telling shareholders that they're selling the PSSS and later tells the authors of the article the following:
Ease of use: Not Availabe.
Sample Detection: Within an inch. (unsatisfactory)
Throughput rate; Not Available!!! (Throughput rate includes parameters like sample time and footprint)
Cost: Not available (MP tells us he's selling them yet a year later he still doesn't know the price!!! LOL)
On top of all this, Loch Harris appeared in a very similar report by the GAO back in 2000 with the same hype which later turned out to be complete BS.
Our you comprehending this pookie? CDEx is listed with ZERO credibility and all the disclaimers and caveats point to them IMO.
Kapeesh?
"no one in their right mind would continue a charade..especially with the Government...seems to me we have been romancing them for a few years now...the stars are lining up however slow they may seem to be............."
"Romancing" is hardly the best decription for what MP and company have been doing with the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. PTO. Deception is much more accurate IMO.
Question: How on earth can you have a revolutionary technology yet it is rejected by every government agency which has reviewed it?
Answer: You can't.
Kapeesh?
Sure there will be progress with the UVF for the Valimed application. That is, verifying drugs and narcotics under laboratory conditions at an inch stand-off. I'm sure that there will be plenty of drugs which need to be documented for the spectral library as long as there are customers willing to pay for it.
So what do we now know about CDEX's UVF tech? It can detect bulk chemicals at under an inch stand-off and with a footprint under a square centimeter in 15-30 seconds. Acceptable performance for Valimed.
However, I don't believe those performance specs even come close to meeting explosive detection requirments. I can only imagine how much they'd be downgraded if the unit was detecting trace explosives instead of bulk chemicals. Then there is that troublesome relationship between stand-off distance, footprint and integration time. Remember, the parameters that MP never fully disclosed in any of the CDEx reports. ZERO!!
And what ever happen to the XRF-based technology which was once the ELF/EM-1? Poteet claimed the XRF could detect at 34 inches and had the advantage of seeing thru materials better than UVF? It took advantage of the magical low atmospheric absorption window which was allegedly discovered by Loch Harris scientist. (Yawn)
Oh yeah, MP slowly phased it out like many of us predicted he would do. At least he was smart enough to know that you can't squeeze water out of a rock.
The XRF was suppose to be tbut only for detecting drugs in a box at an
Arloco,
Who deep fries their carnitas?
Most Mexican restaurants.
What tortillas are you using? Are we talkin' soft or hard tacos?
Doesn't matter.
Look forward to your salsa fresca recipe.
Salsa fresca is pretty standard Locs. Just buy the ingredients fresh, fresh, fresh and chop, chop, chop. I'll get the ingredients and porportions I use for you.
You don't stand a chance in beatin' me in the Mexican food catagory, but look forward to your effort. ;)
I know, you're probably right. But it's fun teasing you before I get my butt whipped! LOL When I was late for the basher meeting a few years back and Coquille and Kidd had already scarfed down all the guacamole I knew it had to be pretty good stuff. You musta used TOTTHG cads. No fair.
diddy
OT Carnitas w/o deep frying:
Take a couple pounds of shoulder cut pork (country style ribs) and place in a large pot.
Add enough water (approx 2-3 qts.) to allow the ribs to simmer for about three hours. Add a teaspoon of salt.
When the water has evaporated away what will be left is the fat and natural juices from the pork. While still in the pot, use this base to braise all sides of the pork to a golden brown.
You now have moist, succulent carnitas with a delightfully crispy outer texture.
diddy
P.S. Next week: How to make the best taco Arloco's ever eaten.
The ELF/EM-1 patent was rejected by the PTO Pokie, no spin is going to change that.
The Army rejected the technology and the Navy failed to award CDEx anything past the "let's see what you got" phase. Someone's been lying to investors.
Why are all these organizations ignoring such revolutionary technology (and equally innovative software)?????????????
Maybe it's just at such a 'higher level' (TM- Kidstewart) that no one realizes it's superiority.
Yeah, that's it!
Sorry Locs... peeps (TM-Arloco) eom
And people are wondering why the price is dropping!
Scared,
KidStewart is MP's right hand man and it is his job to control these boards IMO. He has been spinning the good cop/bad cop story since day one and has been caught in at least two major lies to cover for MP and Poteet.
If CDEx has nothing to hide why is he covering for them? If the tech is so revolutionary why not just sit back and wait for it to happen. Why all the damage control.
If Inet thinks I continue to post because of hurt pride he is just fooling himself. I've accepted by loss, licked my wounds and learned my lesson. However, I will not make it easy for them by walking away like Kidinsight suggests to dishearted investors.
I bet (sorry Scared) that before the internet came around life was much easier for the penny stock scamsters since investors had no convenient way of forming an "affinity group"! (TM- Paige/Pokster)
INET,
How exactly did you come to this conclusion:
Well according to the IHOP board, Diddy and Coquille believe the kid and Stewart are one and the same, and that he is insane enough to allow this company to spin itself into the ground, along with he and his wife's small fortune,which is shrinking as I write.
When those two(D&C) and couple of others champion something,ones brain cells should be activated, as to why.
I'm not saying they are dumb people but their thinking will never line up with what is good for us,in the long run.
My thinking was good for shareholders a very long time ago. I got out at what now would be 5-6.00. That would have been good for most everyone. Gquarn recently got out at 1.30 and that was good for him.
IMHO, as I stated in my earlier post,if kid and Stewart are one and the same, what more inside information could one ask for.
OF COURSE NO ONE WOULD SEEK, OR BE GIVEN INSIDE INFORMATION,IF HE KNEW IT WAS ILLEGAL. RIIIGHT!
he is careful to give no information and makes sure his cheerleading is based on "IMHO", "I beleive" ...etc. What's the motive for his cheerleading?
Just look to see who has the most to lose,kid/Stewart with his couple of hundred grand,(remember they took the 1 for 5 split also), those few with their long hurt pride,or us with demands of which we know not what we ask.
Exactly Inet, I have no motive to lie, Kidstewart does. If hurt pride is your only plausible explaination for my posts, then it is very weak at best and certainly pales in comparison to the motivation of greed. When I realized the scam and the subsequent cover-up I got out, but just like Scared and several others have said, it doesn't mean I'm just going to walk away. That's what peeps like KidStewart are telling investors to do. Would you make it that easy for them?
Just my humble opinion.
Hey, I'd sure like to hear something, but at what cost!
INET6
Complete nonsense from the #1 cheerleader:
Sanddollar, I'll be using your format! LOL
By: kidinsight
10 Aug 2005, 11:31 AM EDT
Msg. 18002 of 18028
(This msg. is a reply to 17994 by t12150.)
Jump to msg. #
t12150:
Good questions! I would almost bet you a cherry pie, that MP has second guessed himself more than once for letting go of his law practice and sailing out of this venture. (You "would almost bet"... so in other words, you won't bet. And for good reason, MP is raking in the bucks and stands to make a small fortune when he exits.)
IMHO, he must have seen and/or felt in his gut that the Tech was worth his efforts. He was certainly aware that the SEC and DOJ and FBI were all over Loch, and even with those 3 strikes against the Tech, he was willing to get in the dugout, and wait to his turn came to bat. (IMHO, the reason he came to bat is because he was playing on the same team as Boone and Baker and the whole team either wins or loses)
I truly believe that the CDEX directors are all qualified and well educated people. I feel they have endured more than you or I can understand. I think their task has taken much longer than any of them could have imagined. (How many of the big name directors have been to a single board meeting and what has been their contribution.)
This type of Technology cannot be easy, or something that can be fine tuned in a year or 5 (or even 10). Afterall, there has been NO ANNOUCEMENT that any Tech that is CLEANING all the mine fields. Just like the MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of dollars that has been spent on cancer research, without a cure all yet! (So, what's the point here, just because no one else is "cleaning all the mine fields" it's excusable that Loch/CDEx can't do it either after claiming they can and taking everyone's investment dollars?)
CDEX is not working on making a better cell phone, or how to keep food fresher, or how get a car better gas milage, they have been working on a much higher tech. A tech that NO one else has mastered either. (LMAO!!! Yes, a tech so high that maybe in 10 or 15 years it will be ready once sensing and optical technology catches up with their revolutionary idea. Kidinsight has claimed that the only thing you have to do is read the patent applications and you will see why the tech is so revolutionary!! Yawn.)
The next time you are in the grocery store, look how many different companies offer you a pecan pie or a dipping chip or soft drink. (And your point is? CDEX is leap frogging all existing techs? Again, show shareholders the revolutionary claims in the patent applications!)
Years you say, yes, I do understand why some things take years, and I even understand that after years and years, it still may make take years. (Computer speed and memory doubles every 18 months. Materials, optical and electronic technologies have a parallel rate. The revolutionary Loch/CDEx technology which you suggest "leap frogs" existing technologies has been alive and well for over ten years . You are now suggesting it may take many more years to come to fruition? I say 100% BS. Again show what claims in the patent applications define this revolutionary tech. You posted that it was easily discernible. Please explain it to shareholders so they may be comforted.)
A business point to bear in mind: How often do you see a team such as this one, stay together for a goal yet to be met? I can tell you from the business side, this company and their directors, are as rare as the rarest coin. This tells me from the business side, that from within, these men are sharing a very strong belief that they have something they can bring to market. (Yes they do and you've been a great help in selling the primary product.)
Lets hope they are right.
da kid
(And BTW, you're not "da kidd although you're a wannabe. You're "KidStewart" or "theotherkid". TheCiscoKidd is the only "da kidd". Kapeesh?
P.S. This reply to your post has been written with:
"ABSENCE OF MALICE" LOL
Once again Kidinsight in trying to convince investors that MP didn't know how advanced the tech was when he took over the Loch scam, that's why it's taking so long develop.
That would mean that MP knew nothing about the Yuma testing even though he admitted to being involved with it when he posted as P4316.
That would mean that MP knew nothing about the integration time and footprint even though he tested it on Kinnsmen Island while working as a consultant for Loch Harris.
Not even the TCL's are believeing KidStewarts BS now, well most of them anyways (TM- Nasfan).
"Absence of malice."
LMAO!!!!!
Oh my gawd.....
... you are formidable! LOL!!!!!!
Homemade carnitas too! Hmmmmmmmm
Arloco,
Guess what I had for dinner Sunday night DD Queen?
LOL
It appears as if the line is growing finer and finer between the so-called Bashers that were once Loch/CDEx shareholders and the so-called True CDEx Longs.
They seem to be in agreement that selling-off and "just walking away" is not the responsible thing to do.
Of course, that's what the peeps (TM- sanddollar) want you to do. And that's what Kidinsight advocated over and over again, "if you don't like it sell off and walk away".
The peeps count on that to be sure.
Now that is one heck of a cowinky dink! Eh?
Whoops... I forgot this one, published at about the same time Sandia conducted field tests on the UVF/LIDAR remote sensing.
Scroll down to the bold text.
Not even the sky is the limit for OSEM
Richard Ducote. Arizona Daily Star. Tucson, Ariz.: Apr 23, 1995. pg. 1.E
Full Text (1284 words)
Copyright The Arizona Daily Star Apr 23, 1995
MADE IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA
Things are looking up at OSEM Inc. - and not just because the company makes telescopes.
When it was founded last summer, OSEM had three employees. It now has 25 and is looking to expand by 10 more.
The company name stands for Optical Systems Engineering and Manufacturing, and that is a fairly good shorthand profile of what OSEM does.
It occupies three separate locations in an industrial area near Interstate 10 and West Prince Road and serves customers worldwide.
Henry Blair, the company's chief executive, says he "conservatively" expects to book sales this year of about $13 million and hit actual revenues of $8.5 million. Gross profit, before taxes and reinvestment in the company, should be about $1.6 million for the privately held company, he says.
In its six months in business last year, total sales were about $1 million and gross profit was $314,000, he added.
But OSEM didn't just appear in the business galaxy out of nowhere. It is the successor to Henry M. Blair Consulting, founded in July 1992.
Blair, who holds a Ph.D. in engineering, thinks his company has no rival in the private sector anywhere in the world for expertise in optical instrument design and manufacturing.
In fact, Blair says, his company really has only two rivals, and they are both more like "one man" operations that subcontract nearly all the component manufacturing for systems.
He says OSEM's ability to design and manufacture sophisticated instruments in quantity and nearly all in-house will put it in a very competitive position.
The key, he says, is the company's ability to make "low-cost, high-performance mirrors" because of Tucson's wealth of resources in optics and astronomy.
"We like Tucson," he says, because astronomy likes Tucson's weather and mountains, which Blair calls the source of the UA's reputation in the field.
While astronomy has been here for decades, the opportunity for a company like OSEM is a recent development, according to Blair.
The decline of government-supported "big science," as demonstrated by cancellation of the Super Collider project, has opened the way for greater use of more but smaller instruments - just the field OSEM intends to plow.
"Small," of course, is relative. OSEM can build scopes with mirrors up to 2.5 meters in diameter, the size of the Mount Wilson scope in California that was the biggest in the world at one time.
Today's biggest optical scope has a main mirror 10 meters in diameter.
Blair's goal, however, is to compete in the field for smaller instruments by putting together a vertically integrated company to produce optical systems at about 40 percent below the cost of traditional custom design and build methods.
Blair essentially wants to adapt mass production and automation to the optical instrument field.
In February, the company was chosen to build two telescopes for the University of Massachusetts - the so-called 2MASS Project, which stands for Two Micron All Sky Survey.
The telescope system will map the entire sky from telescopes in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
OSEM will design and install the first 1.3-meter telescope at Mount Hopkins, 40 miles south of Tucson, by January.
A twin unit will be built at Chile's Cerro Tololo about a year later, Blair said. The contract for just the Mount Hopkins scope is about $650,000, he added.
The 2MASS contract calls for OSEM to provide the telescope, large optics, a digital focusing system, drives, system computers, a finder telescope, mirror handling equipment and other systems.
Much of the OSEM staff was recruited from University of Arizona astronomy and mirror lab programs. Blair is more direct:"Raiding is what we do," he shrugs.
Company facilities will soon house five mirror-casting furnaces, a key ingredient in the OSEM strategy of building its own components to cut costs.
A 1-meter instrument will sell for a bargain $280,000, Blair says, about $200,000 below the cost of a custom scope the same size. A 2-meter OSEM scope will sell for about $590,900, he says, about half the cost of competitive hardware.
Blair said that as "big science" slows down, demand will increase for instruments like those offered by OSEM.
In astronomy, he says, discoveries are made with large instruments, but the diligent science spurred by the discovery is done on small scopes.
Blair was project manager for the Smithsonian Institution/UA Multiple Mirror Telescope on Mount Hopkins, the two existing Mount Graham scopes, and was engineer or manager on numerous other optical projects.
The company's director of optical projects, Lawrence K. Randall, has worked for the European Space Agency, the National Science Foundation, Kitt Peak National Observatory and numerous other groups.
OSEM project scientist Wade M. Poteet, an astronomer, is a veteran of the UA Spacelab-2 IR Telescope Project and has worked on Department of Energy, Sandia Labs and NASA projects as well.
The company's mirror lab director, Walter Stoss, worked on various Steward Observatory mirror lab jobs.
Peter Wangsness, head of casting process development for OSEM, also was involved with the UA mirror lab and developed a process for producing lightweight honeycomb glass mirrors.
Roberta McMillan, OSEM systems staff engineer, worked on lunar instruments carried to the moon by NASA astronauts, designed mirror-polishing components at the UA, and was involved in numerous other optical projects.Software development specialist Fatima Lopez is responsible for programming the company's mirror furnace temperature control system and other systems. Systems engineer Harold K. Cauthen is a specialist in laser applications and has worked for NASA and Sandia Labs projects.
Fabrication manager Kent Johnson has extensive UA Mirror Lab experience.
Engineer Robert L. Meeks was start-up engineer for the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope on Mount Graham.
Michael Nakamura, with 13 years of experience in optics, is in charge of large optical finishing.
Vince Luongo, with 30 years of experience at IBM in various production and reliability posts, is OSEM production manager.
In addition to astronomy, the company also sees an opportunity in optical monitoring of airborne contaminants, technology that can have applications in such fields as semiconductor manufacturing, and environmental or nuclear non-proliferation compliance.
Last year, OSEM was awarded a $400,000 federal contract for Brookhaven National Laboratory to design and build a mobile laser-equipped system to measure air pollution.
OSEM and Sandia National Laboratories have a cooperative research and development agreement to focus on remote sensing systems.
In recent weeks, Blair said, representatives of the Smithsonian have expressed interest in buying two 2-meter scopes from OSEM, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has contacted the company about buying two 1.5-meter scopes for testing of laser communications equipment for JPL's proposed lunar and Martian observatories.
While Blair is busy putting the company together and dealing with customer inquiries, one of the things of which he is most proud is the company's involvement with a project to put a telescope atop a new building at Tucson High Magnet School.
Blair said he just happened to notice that a telescope dome was built on the new facility near the UA campus, but never saw a scope being placed in the structure. He was told by Tucson Unified School District officials that no funds were available for an instrument.
OSEM has committed about $250,000 to a two-year project that enlists students to help design and build a half-meter scope at the school's Technology and Science Building.
The project will apparently make Tucson Magnet High School the first public school in the nation to have a research telescope.
Speaking of 1000 meter UVF detection...... amazing how close this technology is to the claimed technology of the ELF/EM-1.
I bet (sorry Scared) by using a pulse laser and employing the most recent advances in optics and sensors, the range of the invention below could exceed 1000 meters!
Multispectral Ultraviolet Fluorescence Lidar System Identifies
Chemical Mixtures in Field Tests
by P. J. Hargis, Jr., G. C. Tisone, T. D. Raymond, J. G. Taylor, J. S. Wagner, I. S. Shokair,
R. D. Mead, J. D. Daniels, T. J. Sobering, M. S. Johnson, M. W. Trahan,
B. F. Clark, C. Wakefiled-Reyes, and F. R. Franklin
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Motivation
Highly sensitive ultraviolet (UV) measurements are generally thought to be of limited use in lidar systems designed to detect chemical species in the atmosphere. Recent work at Sandia National Laboratories has changed this perception and led to the development of a new multispectral UV fluorescence lidar system designed for remote chemical analysis. Briefly, a broadly tunable UV laser is used to transmit multiple laser wavelengths, some of which are selectively absorbed and subsequently excite fluorescence in specific chemical species. The resulting fluorescence spectra at each excitation wavelength are compared to a database of fluorescence spectra from individual species to determine species concentrations. The com-parison is carried out using a unique multivariate analysis algorithm developed at Sandia to determine species concentrations from multi-spectral UV fluorescence measurements.
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Accomplishment
Sandia’s multispectral UV fluorescence lidar system was tested in July 1995 at the Nevada Test Site. Measurements were made on vapor plumes consisting of mixtures of benzene, m-xylene, p-xylene, and toluene ranging in concentration from 1 to 500 ppm. All measurements were made at a standoff distance of 0.5 km. Atmospheric attenuation coefficients derived from elastic backscatter measurements were used in the multivariate analysis algorithm to correct measured fluorescence spectra for distortions due to transmission of the fluorescence radiation through the atmosphere. The analysis algorithm was then used to determine species concentrations and time-dependent concentration profiles. Almost 95% accuracy was achieved in identifying species in chemical plumes containing up to four species. Fluorescence detection limits for individual species ranged from about 5 to 10 ppm-m for all measured species. Highlights of the field test results include the first multivariate analysis of multispectral absorption and fluorescence data and the capability of UV fluorescence lidar measurements to map species concentrations in chemical plumes.
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Significance
Data obtained at the July 1995 field test demonstrates the potential of multispectral UV fluorescence measurements to detect nuclear, chemical, and biological proliferation activities. Other areas of national importance that benefit from the new technology are counterterrorism, drug interdiction, environmental monitoring, and global climate change.