New metric for predicting target acquisition performance

Optical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2806-2818

  Vollmerhausen, Richard H ^a   Jacobs, Eddie ^a   Driggers, Ronald G ^a  

^a U S ARMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Image quality; Target acquisition; Target identification; Target recognition

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SENSORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

JOHNSON CRITERIA; TARGET ACQUISITION; TARGET IDENTIFICATION; TARGET RECOGNITION; TARGETING TASK PERFORMANCE METRIC;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 11244354301     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1799111     Document Type: Article

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