RISTA a real time high resolution wide area infrared (IR) tactical reconnaissance system

Author

Martin, John R.

Author_Institution

Div. of Electron. Sensors & Syst., Northrop Grumman Corp., Baltimore, MD, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

1-8 Feb 1997

Firstpage

285

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 1997. Proceedings., IEEE

Conference_Location

Snowmass at Aspen, CO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3741-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.1997.577982

Filename

577982