A week later, the laser camera identified the first items to have spiraled from the aircraft _ shattered aircraft parts and luggage complete with First Class tags.
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This work led directly to the development of Neptec's Laser Camera System, which is an operational system used by NASA to inspect the shuttle's external surfaces during flight.
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Synthetic aperture sonar and the laser camera also have been combined with other sonar, magnetic and chemical sensors in another system being developed at the Coastal Systems Station to find unexploded ordnance and debris.
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American reinforcements are arriving to help find the wreckage of Swissair Flight 111, including a U . S . Navy salvage ship and a Navy scientific team equipped with an experimental laser camera to cut through the undersea gloom.
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The laser camera was expected to provide investigators with images to map and locate objects as small as a seashell, said Gary Kekelis, who heads the sensing technologies division at the Navy's Coastal Systems Station in Panama City, Florida.
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While diving and other operations over the wreckage slowed and stopped on recent nights, the laser camera was towed without pause from Saturday to Wednesday morning by the chartered 115-foot ship Diane G . The torpedo-like probe was hauled out Wednesday as rough weather churned the Atlantic.
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Far from any studio or stage, the picture _ showing a piece of the left side of the first-class cabin of the TWA Boeing 747 that blew apart two weeks ago _ was actually created by a laser camera probing the dark silty waters more than 100 feet beneath the Atlantic.
