Mission/Data-Base Imagery Correlation Techniques (M/DICT)

Abstract

The Analytical Photogrammetric Positioning System (APPS) was developed to determine accurate target location data. APPS operators transfer target locations from mission images to a vertical data-base photograph in determining target coordinates. The speed and accuracy with which experienced interpreters of side-looking radar, infrared, and television images transferred annotated locations from such sensor images to a vertical data-base photograph were determined. Annotated locations used were A-Type (those on or near a terrain feature identifiable on mission and data-base images) and B-Type (those 200 or more meters distant, on the ground, from such mutually identifiable features). Transfer techniques were of two kinds: (1) direct transfer in which visual correlation of mission and data-base images was used; (2) indirect transfer where the required point was transferred using a photogrammetric transformation method employing auxillary points that were mutually identifiable on mission and data-base images.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA064264

Entities

People

  • A. Harabedian
  • E. Sewell
  • T. Jeffrey

Organizations

  • RTX

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Cameras
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Correlation Techniques
  • Databases
  • Detectors
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Information Science
  • Measurement
  • Photographs
  • Photography
  • Radar Equipment
  • Reconnaissance
  • Remote Detectors
  • Side Looking Radar
  • Social Sciences

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