Hyperspectral Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing of the Land Surface and Target Identification using Airborne Interferometry

Abstract

The main applications of this research project relate to the real-time target acquisition and target identification, for military purposes, using various hyperspectral sensors. The advantages for military personnel are twofold. Firstly, they would be able to identify, in real-time, man-made structures in a natural environment and secondly they would be able to ascertain to a certain extent whether these structures were civilian or military and in the latter case whether they were friendly or not. The technique for target acquisition/identification presented here relies on the fact that artificial surfaces and natural surfaces have, in general, widely different surface emissivity spectra. Thus, in theory, measuring the surface emissivity of various objects should allow us to distinguish between them.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA568340

Entities

People

  • Jean-claude Thelen
  • Jonathan P. Taylor
  • Stephan Havemann

Organizations

  • Met Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Airborne
  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Atmospheric Windows
  • Construction
  • Identification
  • Interferometry
  • Measurement
  • Military Personnel
  • Radiative Transfer
  • Remote Sensing
  • Surface Properties
  • Surface Temperature
  • Target Acquisition
  • Weather Forecasting

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.