Intelligent image data processing for acquiring target in a multisensor platform

To hide personnel, equipments and vehicles modern battlefield uses many techniques such as natural and artificial obstacles (e.g. vegetation, and masking and netting, respectively). Even if the enemy would not use these methods there are some situations when conditions like bad weather may make difficult or impossible to visualize these obstacles. To overcome this inconvenience, a stabilized platform made of a complex sensor (visible and infrared camera) and a LASER radar is designed. This paper presents the results obtained in solving this complex problem by using complex data (image) processing not only to find the kind of targets described above, but also to identify them.