Probability of identification of small hand-held objects for electro-optic forward-looking infrared systems

Optical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Moyer, Steve ^a   Hixson, Jonathan G ^a   Edwards, Timothy C ^b   Krapels, Keith ^c  

^a NIGHT VISION AND ELECTRONIC SENSORS DIRECTORATE   (United States)

^b Redstone Technical Test Center   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Electro optic; FLIR; MOUT; Target acquisition; Urban operations

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; IMAGE SENSORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PROBABILITY;

ELECTRO-OPTIC FORWARD-LOOKING INFRARED SYSTEMS; LONG-WAVE INFRARED (LWIR); MIDWAVE INFRARED (MWIR); NIGHT VISION ELECTRONIC SENSORS DIRECTORATE (NVESD); TARGET ACQUISITION;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 33748613530     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2213997     Document Type: Article

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