NAWC CHINALAKE FLIR PRESENTATION

S-BAND HIGH RESOLUTION RADAR

These images were put together in order to demonstrate several well known problems with using infrared sensors in uncontrolled environments. These problems include water reflections, "hot wakes," and "hot horizons" in the open ocean environments; port clutter in port facility environments; obscurations, high IR clutter, low contrast and various thermal loading problems in the land target environment; variations in thermal scene due to time of day, urban clutter, and bridges in high value land target environments.

Ship Images	Land Images	High Value Images

Contact information

voice: (619) 939-0546 or
       DSN 437-0546
       fax: (619) 939-6893 

Howard McCauley
       Naval Air Warfare Center
       Weapons Division 
       Code 471130D 
       1 Administration Circle 
       China Lake, CA
       93555-6001 

Processing:

for $i ( *.pgm )
 pgmnorm $i > normalized_file.pgm
 pgmtoppm -map heatscale normalized_file.pgm > heatscale_file.pgm
 ppmtogif -interlace heatscale_file.pgm > $i:r.gif
 end

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