Wide-Area Surveillance Using HD LWIR Uncooled Sensors

  • Magazine Article
  • TBMG-27231
Published July 01, 2017 by Tech Briefs Media Group in United States
Language:
  • English

The effectiveness of airborne search and rescue, navigation, and situational awareness tasks is predicated on the availability of high-resolution imagery that provides pilots with a clear picture and the widest possible field of view. While the human eye is extremely high resolution with an unmatched ability to detect high-spatial-frequency (HSF) objects across a wide field of regard, human vision can easily fatigue, is subject to environmental conditions, and is vastly degraded at night.