This paper discusses the design of an improved passive millimeter wave imaging system intended to be used for military forward operating base security in degraded visual environments. A simple end-to-end model of such an imager is described, including a simple scene model based on transformations applied to visible and infrared imagery, optical aberrations, focal plane sampling, scan conversion, receiver performance and image processing algorithms. The use of such a model as a design tool is discussed, especially with regard to optimizing scan conversion and image processing algorithms. The expected performance of the latest imager design is predicted.


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    Title :

    System modelling of a real-time passive millimeter-wave imager to be used for base security and helicopter navigation in degraded visual environments



    Conference:

    Degraded Visual Environments: Enhanced, Synthetic, and External Vision Solutions 2014 ; 2014 ; Baltimore,Maryland,USA


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2014-06-19





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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