Vehicle tracking through the exploitation of remote sensing and LWIR polarization science

Hamilton Scott Clouse; Hamid Krim; Wesam Sakla; Olga Mendoza-Schrock

doi:10.1117/12.901556

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9 September 2011 Vehicle tracking through the exploitation of remote sensing and LWIR polarization science

Hamilton Scott Clouse, Hamid Krim, Wesam Sakla, Olga Mendoza-Schrock

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Proceedings Volume 8160, Polarization Science and Remote Sensing V; 81600L (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.901556
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2011, San Diego, California, United States

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Vehicle tracking is an integral component in layered sensing exploitation applications. The utilization of a combination of sensing modalities and processing techniques provides better insight about a situation than can be achieved with a single sensing modality. In this work, several robust features are explored for vehicle tracking using data captured in a remote sensing setting. A target area is surveyed by a sensor operating capturing polarization information in the longwave infrared (LWIR) band. We here extend our previous work ([1]) to experimental analysis of several feature sets including three classic features (Stokes images, DoLP, the Degree of Linear Polarization, and AoP, the Angle of Polarization) and several geometry inspired features.¹

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Hamilton Scott Clouse, Hamid Krim, Wesam Sakla, and Olga Mendoza-Schrock "Vehicle tracking through the exploitation of remote sensing and LWIR polarization science", Proc. SPIE 8160, Polarization Science and Remote Sensing V, 81600L (9 September 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.901556

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