Use of night vision goggles (NVGs) for military applications has grown steadily over the past 30 years. Each successive NVG model represents some kind of improvement in terms of size, weight, ruggedness, gain, noise, spectral sensitivity, field-of-view or resolution. The primary focus of this paper is the determination of NVG resolution. Many methods have been devised to measure the resolving power of NVGs and each method has with it an associated variance or accuracy of measurement. This variance is most likely caused by several sources including observer visual capability (since most methods involve visual observations and judgement to assess NVG resolution). The main purpose of this paper is to present the different methods that have been used to assess NVG resolution and to determine to what extent observer visual capability limits the accuracy of NVG resolution measurement. This study uses a methodology that measures an observer's psychometric function when viewing through NVGs (percent correct detection as a function of spatial separation) to determine their visual acuity using probit analysis.


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    Title :

    Measuring observers' visual acuity through night vision goggles


    Contributors:
    Pinkus, A. (author) / Lee Task, H. (author)


    Publication date :

    1998


    Size :

    11 Seiten, 23 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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