Analysis of Thermal Imagery Collected at Grayling II, Grayling, Michigan

Abstract

The purpose of the Smart Weapons Operability Enhancement (SWOE) Joint Test and Evaluation Program is to validate the SWOE synthetic thermal scene generation procedure. Once validated, this procedure will hopefully change the design-test-redesign approach to smart weapons development, test, and evaluation. Using the procedure, smart weapons designers will be able to evaluate their sensor algorithms on simulated scenes with a greater degree of confidence than is often-presented during the test phase of the design process. The SWOE process will also allow for the smart weapon designs to be evaluated for different environments. This report is an analysis of thermal data, collected by the U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station during the Grayling II field program exercise 4 March-15 April 1994, that can be used to understand variations in terrain features' infrared signatures using image metrics and to present the data in a format that can be used for synthetic scene validation tasks. This report describes in graphical format the meteorological data at the time the infrared imagery data were collected.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA286828

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  • Salvador Rivera Jr.

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Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Temperature
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detectors
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Environment
  • Geography
  • Infrared Signatures
  • Joint Test And Evaluation
  • Measurement
  • Meteorological Data
  • Michigan
  • Precision-Guided Munitions
  • Scene Generation
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Weapons

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