KEYWORDS: Signal to noise ratio, Sensors, Image processing, Body temperature, Point spread functions, Interference (communication), Signal attenuation, Binary data, Image fusion, Signal processing
This report is based on trails where number of trained test persons were given the task of deciding at what level of noise and spatial degradation they could identify fighter aircraft in computer generated images. The test persons gave a confidence level to those answers. This enabled finding the probability of correct identification as a function of noise and blurring. The report shows the results of some 6000 tests with 23 fighter aircraft seen in three different aspects: top, side and front. Chapter 1 of this document is introduction. Chapter 2 gives the theoretical background and the algebraic definitions of the quantities used. Chapter 3 describes the software and the test process used in the tests. Chapter 4 gives the results.
This paper presents an optical principle based on four right angle prisms with an optional intermediate lens that allows a large aperture combined with a large field of regard. The optics can be fitted into a small volume and the major part of the thermal imager is placed off-gimbal.
This paper suggests a method for normalization of D* for SPRITE detectors with respect to MTF-limiting parameters, primarily the diffusion spread. The purpose of the normalization is to obtain a single performance parameter for the SPRITE detector to make it more objectively comparable with conventional detectors with discrete elements. The recalculation ratio is the rms noise calculated with a filter that compensates the impulse response back to a square pulse divided by the rms noise of the SPRITE element with no compensating filters. In this paper two filters are used: one that fully compensates back to a square impulse response, and one that compensates the MTF at two selected frequencies. The recalculation ratio is calculated as a function of diffusion length with the ratio element length/(carrier life time* scan speed) (L/vt) as a parameter. The results show very little variation with L/vt, so the results should be valid for most applications for the SPRITE detector.
A central obscuration in a thermal imager will cause performance degradation. This paper presents diagrams showing the normalized aperture diameter as a function of obscuration ratio under a condition for constant NETD and MRTD. Typically, an increase in the relative obscuration from 40% to 60% of the aperture diameter will require a 20 to 30% larger diameter for constant NETD and a 25 to 25% larger diameter for constant MRTD.
The ringing in the impulse response for a SPRITE based thermal imager is analyzed. The optimum choice of anamorphic ratio and boost filter parameters is derived under a constraint for maximum ringing in the impulse response. It appears that the optimum value for the anamorphic ratio is about 1.4 and that it is optimal to have a boost that gives the maximally allowed percentage of ringing.
Conference Committee Involvement (6)
Electro-Optical and Infrared Systems: Technology and Applications VI
31 August 2009 | Berlin, Germany
Electro-Optical and Infrared Systems: Technology and Applications V
16 September 2008 | Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Electro-Optical and Infrared Systems: Technology and Applications
19 September 2007 | Florence, Italy
Electro-Optical and Infrared Systems: Technology and Applications III
13 September 2006 | Stockholm, Sweden
Electro-Optical and Infrared Systems: Technology and Applications II
26 September 2005 | Bruges, Belgium
Electro-Optical and Infrared Systems: Technology and Applications
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