Benefits of Using Photosimulation Laboratory Environment for Camouflage Assessment

Abstract

A method is described for using the photosimulation laboratory environment to evaluate the effectiveness of camouflage for military vehicles. There are distinct advantages to acquiring images at the field site and then bringing them back for observer testing in a laboratory environment. Laboratory testing provides a repeatable, secure, and low-cost way to generate realistic performance data for vehicle evaluation for the purpose of signature testing, measurement of the effectiveness of camouflage relative to a baseline vehicle, and calibration and validation of target acquisition models. A test is described by the authors in which a baseline LAV is compared to a treated LAV in the TARDEC Visual perception Laboratory using imagery collected from the field in the manner prescribed by an experimental design.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 12, 2002
Accession Number
ADA405404

Entities

People

  • Darryl Bryk
  • David Bednarz
  • Euijung Sohn
  • Kimberly Lane
  • Thomas Meitzler

Organizations

  • Tank-automotive and Armaments Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Armored Vehicles
  • Combinatorial Analysis
  • Command And Control
  • Detection
  • Experimental Design
  • Field Tests
  • High Resolution
  • Light Armored Vehicles
  • Military Vehicles
  • Operations Security
  • Security
  • Small Arms
  • Standards
  • Target Acquisition
  • Vehicles
  • Visual Perception

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.