Review of current aided/automatic target acquisition technology for military target acquisition tasks

Optical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Ratches, James A ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aided and automatic target recognition; Aided and automatic target recognition performances; Clutter, target variability; Military target acquisitions; Receiver operator characteristics

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC COMMUNITY; AIDED AND AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; AIDED AND AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION PERFORMANCES; CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES; CURRENT LEVELS; IMAGERY DATA; MILITARY SERVICES; MILITARY TARGETS; REALISTIC ENVIRONMENTS; RECEIVER OPERATOR CHARACTERISTICS; TARGET ACQUISITION;

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION;

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

EID: 80455129233     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3601879     Document Type: Article

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