TG16 point target detection experiment POLLEX, Livorno 2001

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4820, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 849-860

  De Jong, Arie N ^a   Winkel, Hans ^a   Moerman, Marcel ^a   Stein, Karin ^b   Weiss Wrana, Karin ^b   Forand, Luc ^c   Potvin, Guy ^c   Buss, James ^d   Cini, Andrea ^e   Vogel, Henrik ^f   Stark, Espen ^g  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^c DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA VALCARTIER   (Canada)

^d ONR   (United States)

^e Mariteleradar   (Italy)

^f DDRE   (Denmark)

^g NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

Author keywords

Atmospheric propagation; Infrared; IRST; Refraction; Scintillation; Target detection; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; DATA REDUCTION; LIGHT REFRACTION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; SCINTILLATION;

TARGET DETECTION;

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 0037648934     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.450543     Document Type: Conference Paper

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