Target Acquisition with FLIR and TV (A Description of Computer Codes IOTA and OBOE).

Abstract

The acquisition of ground targets by airborne observers using FLIR or TV sensors involves a series of steps, one of which is the actual detection or recognition of the target on the display of the sensor. This process is represented by a computer program, IOTA (Infrared-Observer-Television Analysis), which contains a flexible, detailed model of the sensor system itself and which also provides for the representation of unaided visual target acquisition. IOTA contains a new formulation of the observer's response. This formulation, OBOE (Observer-Optical Equations, is described in detail and calculations made with it are compared with experimental results and with other display-observer formulations. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA043405

Entities

People

  • A. D. Stathacopoulos
  • H. F. Gilmore

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Camera Tubes
  • Computers
  • Contrast
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Diameters
  • Electro-Optical Sensors
  • Equations
  • Observers
  • Optics
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Procedures (Computers)
  • Target Acquisition
  • Target Detection
  • Target Recognition

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Marine Propulsion Engineering and Naval Architecture
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.