Key parameters design of an aerial target detection system on a space-based platform

Hanlu Zhu; Yejin Li; Tingliang Hu; Peng Rao

doi:10.1117/1.OE.57.2.023107

16 February 2018 Key parameters design of an aerial target detection system on a space-based platform

Hanlu Zhu, Yejin Li, Tingliang Hu, Peng Rao

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 57, Issue 2, 023107 (February 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.57.2.023107

Abstract

To ensure flight safety of an aerial aircraft and avoid recurrence of aircraft collisions, a method of multi-information fusion is proposed to design the key parameter to realize aircraft target detection on a space-based platform. The key parameters of a detection wave band and spatial resolution using the target-background absolute contrast, target-background relative contrast, and signal-to-clutter ratio were determined. This study also presented the signal-to-interference ratio for analyzing system performance. Key parameters are obtained through the simulation of a specific aircraft. And the simulation results show that the boundary ground sampling distance is 30 and 35 m in the mid- wavelength infrared (MWIR) and long-wavelength infrared (LWIR) bands for most aircraft detection, and the most reasonable detection wavebands is 3.4 to 4.2 μm and 4.35 to 4.5 μm in the MWIR bands, and 9.2 to 9.8 μm in the LWIR bands. We also found that the direction of detection has a great impact on the detection efficiency, especially in MWIR bands.

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Hanlu Zhu, Yejin Li, Tingliang Hu, and Peng Rao "Key parameters design of an aerial target detection system on a space-based platform," Optical Engineering 57(2), 023107 (16 February 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.57.2.023107

Received: 5 October 2017; Accepted: 19 January 2018; Published: 16 February 2018

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