Night Vision Goggles (AN/PVS-7)-Performance Issues and Answers

Abstract

During 1987, pursuant to a tasking by the Undersecretary of the Army through the Institute for Defense Analysis, the US Army CECOM Center for Night Vision and Electro-Optics (C2NVEO) carried out a comprehensive series of studies to characterize the spectral content of night sky irradiance across the spectral sensitivity bands of second and third generation AN/PVS-7 Night Vision Goggles. This effort was then logically extended to the development of a detailed comparative performance analysis of night vision goggles within the true spectral characterization of the night sky environment. Several related issues were also of concern to the Undersecretary, including the effect of various bandpass and notch spectral filters with goggles, and finally the operational life and reliability of night vision goggles.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA206117

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  • Walter B. Morrow Jr.

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