Human Operator Interface with FLIR Displays.

Abstract

This report presents an extensive review of factors which limit performance of forward-looking infrared (FLIR) systems. Two critical variables of system performance, modulation transfer function (MTF) and noise equivalent delta temperature (NE delta T), were chosen for further experimental analysis. The experiment used a digital simulation of minimum resolvable temperature (MRT) paradigm to test two modeled FLIR systems. Detection and recognition data were collected for two targets (four-bar and square) in trials with varying levels of size, contrast, noise, and MTF. The test results were compared with the NVL predictive model(Ratches, et al., 1975) used to evaluate FLIR system performance. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA086284

Entities

People

  • G. Rubin
  • J. Wald
  • L. G. Williams
  • Larry G. Goble
  • Paul D. Pratt

Organizations

  • Honeywell International, Inc.

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Charge Carriers
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Dielectric Gases
  • Diffraction
  • Digital Images
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Identification
  • Image Processing
  • Infrared Detectors
  • Measurement
  • Optics
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Scattering
  • Semiconductors
  • Signal Processing
  • Visible Spectra

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Regression Analysis.