Tracking point targets in cloud clutter

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3061, Issue , 1997, Pages 496-507

  Silverman, Jerry ^a   Mooney, Jonathan M ^a   Caefer, Charlene E ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud clutter; Metrics; Point target tracking; Staring IR camera; Triple temporal filter

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; CAMERAS; CLOUDS; INFRARED RADIATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; TARGETS; WHITE NOISE;

DAMPED SINUSOIDS; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCES; EXPONENTIAL AVERAGING; FALSE ALARM RATES; FRAME TIMES; INITIAL TESTS; METRICS; NEW CLASSES; OPTIMIZATION ROUTINES; POINT TARGET TRACKING; SIGNAL TO CLUTTERS; STARING IR CAMERA; STATIONARY CLUTTERS; TEMPORAL NOISES; TRACKING POINT TARGETS; TRIPLE TEMPORAL FILTER; UNRESOLVED TARGETS;

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 0001704004     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.280369     Document Type: Conference Paper

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