Title :
RISTA a real time high resolution wide area infrared (IR) tactical reconnaissance system
Author_Institution :
Div. of Electron. Sensors & Syst., Northrop Grumman Corp., Baltimore, MD, USA
Abstract :
Northrop Grumman Corporation has developed an advanced 2nd generation lR sensor system to provide wide area high resolution imagery from unmanned (UAV), fixed wing, or rotary wing aircraft. The sensor system, called Reconnaissance Infrared Surveillance Target Acquisition (RISTA), consists of a 2nd generation FLIR/Line Scanner, a digital data link, a ground processing facility (GPF), and an aided target recognizer (AiTR). The concept of operation together with a description of the sensor, the functions of the GPF, and use of the AiTR are provided. Finally, imagery generated by this high resolution, wide field of view system together with performance evaluation results are shown
Keywords :
aircraft instrumentation; image processing; image recognition; infrared imaging; military computing; military systems; surveillance; target tracking; FLIR/Line Scanner; Northrop Grumman Corporation; RISTA; Reconnaissance Infrared Surveillance Target Acquisition; aided target recognizer; digital data link; fixed wing aircraft; ground processing facility; lR sensor; performance evaluation; real time; rotary wing aircraft; wide area IR tactical reconnaissance; Aerospace electronics; Image resolution; Infrared sensors; Infrared surveillance; Real time systems; Reconnaissance; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; Target recognition; Unmanned aerial vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace Conference, 1997. Proceedings., IEEE
Conference_Location :
Snowmass at Aspen, CO
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3741-7
DOI :
10.1109/AERO.1997.577982
