The Infrared Celestial Background Scene Descriptor

Stephan D. Price; John P. Kennealy

doi:10.1117/12.960734

20 September 1989 The Infrared Celestial Background Scene Descriptor

Stephan D. Price, John P. Kennealy

Proceedings Volume 1110, Imaging Infrared: Scene Simulation, Modeling, and Real Image Tracking; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.960734
Event: SPIE 1989 Technical Symposium on Aerospace Sensing, 1989, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The performance of an infrared space surveillance system is ultimately limited by the celestial background. The impact which the various components of this background have on the system is presented, as is the requirement for an accurate scene description capability for system design trade-off and performance analyses. The Geophysics Laboratory, partially through contract to Mission Research Corp., is creating a Celestial Background Scene Descriptor to meet this need. The development path for this description capability and its current status is presented. A low resolution, image-based descriptor will be available shortly, as will models of the point source and diffuse zodiacal backgrounds. Procedures are discussed which will extend this preliminary descriptor to higher resolutions, lower limiting brightnesses, and a broader spectral capability.

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Stephan D. Price and John P. Kennealy "The Infrared Celestial Background Scene Descriptor", Proc. SPIE 1110, Imaging Infrared: Scene Simulation, Modeling, and Real Image Tracking, (20 September 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.960734

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