The Naval Air Development Center has been conducting over-water flight trials of passive infrared mapping devices as part of an ASW program to study the possibility of detecting submarines by detecting effects they may produce on the surface of the water. While infrared pictures of ships, submarines, and their wakes were being obtained, infrared pictures of many interesting ocean oceanographic phenomena were recorded. This report consists of a description of a typical passive infrared line-scanning equipment used in conducting these studies, a brief resume of results obtained against submarines and ships, and a description of results that suggest its application to air- dropped mine detection, to nighttime air-sea rescue work, to underwater sound propagation prediction, for general nighttime surveillance and for use as an oceanographic tool.
Applications of Airborne Passive Infrared Mapping Devices to Military Oceanography
1987
36 pages
Report
No indication
English
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