Air Vehicle Detection by Using an Ensemble of Moving-Picture Images.

Abstract

This document examines three-dimensional matched filtering and shows how it can be applied to accomplish target detection over sequences of observed scenes, which is an important extension of classical two-dimensional image processing examples to demonstrate and validate these results are provided. Three-dimensional filtering techniques can be easily modified to act as a space-shift, time-delay-and-integrate matched-filtering technique. Computer simulations verified the validity of this modification. The results demonstrate signal-to-noise ratio gains asymptotically growing by the filter integration time over those normally obtained by two-dimensional matched filtering of the individual frames in a sequence. The specific form of the output is ideally suited for moving-target indicator (MTI) applications, or can be used in conjunction with some other target-speed and detection-localizing algorithm.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADA182161

Entities

People

  • I. S. Reed
  • Larry B Stotts
  • R. M. Gagliardi

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Computer Simulations
  • Detection
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Filters
  • Filtration
  • Geometry
  • Image Processing
  • Matched Filters
  • Moving Targets
  • Polyethylene Glycols
  • Remote Sensing
  • Signal Processing
  • Simulations
  • Target Detection
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects