IR Algorithm Development for Fire and Forget Projectiles.

Abstract

ARRADCOM has under contract, on the Advanced Indirect Fire System (AIFS) Program, several contractors who are attempting to solve the problem of autonomous detection of military targets, primarily armored vehicles. The contractors are prepared to analyse data from the background as well as targets in their seeker's field of view to develop algorithms designed to distinguish the targets from the background. Several of the sensing approaches collect and analyse reflected MMW (Radar) energy, while several other approaches depend upon receiving the target's radiated and/or solar reflected infrared (IR) energy. This paper addresses algorithms currently being used to operate on this IR energy in the 3-5 microns and 8-12 microns passbands. It should be recognized that many of the IR detection algorithm techniques are also applicable to other forms of energy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 18, 1982
Accession Number
ADA117343

Entities

People

  • Vincent P. Marchese

Organizations

  • United States Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Armored Vehicles
  • Arrays
  • Captive Flight
  • Computers
  • Contractors
  • Data Sets
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • False Alarms
  • Flight
  • Focal Plane Arrays
  • Focal Planes
  • Images
  • Indirect Fire
  • Intensity
  • Target Detection

Readers

  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.
  • Spectroscopy.