ELECTRONIC CORRELATION TECHNIQUES FOR TARGET RECOGNITION

Abstract

The target recognition problem was approached analytically, experimentally, and through photographic examination of target attributes. Aerial photographs of runways, petroleum refineries, and industrial complexes provided attribute data on which part of the analytical and experimental studies were based. The detection of petroleum refineries in the spatial frequency domain and of industrial complexes in the time domain were investigated analytically. Correlation surfaces of targets and a slit template were studied experimentally. A width-gating device was constructed and the extraction of straight-line patterns from their backgrounds on the basis of the width attribute was demonstrated. Three suggested systems for the detection of straight-line patterns and the recognition of runways are described, and a system for the detection of irregular pattern areas is defined.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 09, 1962
Accession Number
AD0273818

Entities

Organizations

  • Goodyear Aerospace

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Photographs
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Correlation Techniques
  • Detectors
  • Industrial Plants
  • Information Processing
  • New York
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Photographs
  • Photography
  • Recognition
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Target Recognition
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Two Dimensional
  • United States

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems