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Abstract:
The objective of this project is to develop polarization and sea foam mitigation techniques and camera components to improve the performance and reduce the form factor of turreted passive multi-spectral imaging systems, with specific application to an existing sensor system known as EPAS, for electro-optic passive ASW system. The work under this contract was focused on the application of this sensor system to Maritime Search and Rescue. The relative merits of the various sensors in the turret for this application were assessed, including the potential for mitigation of sea foam and the potential use of polarization, and a concept of operations that was developed that provides a day-night capability by means of the use of thermal imaging sensors in an optimal geometry coupled with algorithms suitable for real time processing. A plan was developed and proposed to collect data to evaluate target and clutter characteristics and to demonstrate detection performance. Subsequently the existence of data collected in another program was discovered that can be obtained and analyzed under the option tasks. This would obviate the special data collection.
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 APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE |
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Final rept. May-Nov 2006 |
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22 |
| Report Date: |
22 JAN 2007 |
| Contract Number: |
N6833506C0284 |
| Report Number: |
A388264 |
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