The Effect of Specific Components in the Task of Armored Vehicle Recognition

Abstract

During Operation Desert Storm, numerous incidents of forces of the same side firing on each other occurred. These incidents of 'friendly fire' accounted for 80% of the American armored vehicle losses and 107 American casualties. Determining the cause of these incorrect recognitions is important to prevent further needless losses. Ten Army officers attending The Pennsylvania State University participated in a study to determine the perceptual and cognitive processes that occurred when recognizing armored vehicles. The subjects responded to vehicles as friend or foe when presented with 35mm slides at presentation times of 500 ms and 100 ms. The proportion correct, mean RT, d', and a values were calculated

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA266693

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  • Ralph W. Briggs

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Armored Vehicles
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognition
  • Computer Vision
  • Computers
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Engineering
  • False Alarms
  • Friendly Fire
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Information Processing
  • Literature Surveys
  • Object Recognition
  • Psychology
  • Two Dimensional
  • Warning Systems

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