Simulation-based analysis of range and cross-range resolution requirements for the identification of vehicles in ladar imagery

Optical Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2734-2745

  Hutchinson, Brett A ^a   Galbraith, Ruben L ^a   Stann, Barry L ^a   Der, Sandor Z ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic target recognition; Ladar; Ladar sensor simulation; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SENSORS; MILITARY VEHICLES; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTICAL RADAR; PATTERN MATCHING; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATED GEOMETRY MATCHING; CROSS RANGE RESOLUTION; LADAR SENSOR SIMULATION;

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 0142123053     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1599837     Document Type: Article

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