On-Board Processing for Linescan Sensors in Miniature Unmanned Aircraft.

Abstract

This document discusses forms of image processing of linescan data, that might profitably be performed on-board a small unmanned air vehicle. The aim of the image processing is to reduce the data bandwidth for transmission over a radio frequency link to the ground display station, to improve the quality of the transmitted image, and to simplify the extraction of intelligence from the image. The bandwidth reduction and information extraction may be enhanced or supplemented by on-board processing to prefilter the data for target detection and target motion detection. Full use of automatic target detection can only be made in conjunction with a navigation system to give ground coordinates for the target data. Alternatively, navigation and air vehicle attitude data can be obtained from the on-board linescan image processor, given the appropriate sensor and processing algorithms.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA149238

Entities

People

  • J. A. C. Beattie

Organizations

  • Royal Aircraft Establishment

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Bandwidth
  • Control Systems
  • Data Rate
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Dynamic Range
  • Frequency
  • Ground Speed
  • Ground Stations
  • Image Processing
  • Navigation
  • Operating Systems
  • Radio Frequency
  • Target Detection
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Weighting Functions

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs