Theater ballistic missile defense: low- and high-resolution multispectral phenomena

Clifford A. Paiva

doi:10.1117/12.323833

18 September 1998 Theater ballistic missile defense: low- and high-resolution multispectral phenomena

Clifford A. Paiva

Proceedings Volume 3371, Automatic Target Recognition VIII; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.323833
Event: Aerospace/Defense Sensing and Controls, 1998, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The U.S. Navy has been requested to provide insightful responses to questions regarding low and high resolution target discrimination and target classification capabilities for short medium range ballistic missiles (SRBM/MRBM). Specific targets studied for this paper include foreign solid booster exhaust plume and hardbody systems (PHS). Target gradient edge intensities were extracted for aimpoint selection and will be added to the pattern referencing library database at NSWC Dahlgren Division. The results of this study indicate an increasing requirement for advanced image processing on the focal plane array of a LEAP (light exoatmospheric projectile) type kill kinetic vehicle (KKV) in order to implement effective correlation matching routines.

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Clifford A. Paiva "Theater ballistic missile defense: low- and high-resolution multispectral phenomena", Proc. SPIE 3371, Automatic Target Recognition VIII, (18 September 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.323833

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