Fusion of visible and thermal imagery improves situational awareness

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3088, Issue , 1997, Pages 177-188

  Toet, Alexander ^a   IJspeert, Jan K ^a   Waxman, Allen M ^b   Aguilar, Mario ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Image fusion; Situational awareness; Thermal imagery; Visual imagery

Indexed keywords

COLOR; MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY;

COLOR IMAGING; FUSION SCHEME; OBSERVER PERFORMANCES; ORIGINAL IMAGES; RELATIVE LOCATION; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; TARGET DETECTIONS; THERMAL IMAGERY; VISUAL IMAGERY;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 58649110839     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.277232     Document Type: Conference Paper

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