Real-Time Simulated Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) Imagery For Training

Heiner Biesel; Tom Rohlfing

doi:10.1117/12.940535

16 September 1987 Real-Time Simulated Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) Imagery For Training

Heiner Biesel, Tom Rohlfing

Proceedings Volume 0781, Infrared Image Processing and Enhancement; (1987) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.940535
Event: 1987 Technical Symposium Southeast on Optics, Electro-Optics, and Sensors, 1987, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Infrared imagery appears superficially similar to monochrome television imagery. An accurate simulation, however, must not only produce realistic images of self-luminous objects--rather than illuminated scenery--it must also replicate the visual anomalies of the imaging system. These anomalous effects arise from the imperfect nature of infrared imagers; they vary among systems, and they can become the dominant visual aspect of the displayed imagery. A strategy has been developed for producing high-fidelity simulated IR imagery in real time. The approach relies upon modeling techniques, which can create a database of infrared scenery derived from visual data, and upon a post-processor coupled to an existing image generator (IG), which will produce IR system-specific effects. A software emulation of the post-processor (PP) has been developed which permits evaluation of its projected performance, as well as facilitating tuning of system parameters in order to achieve realistic IR imagery. To complement these developments in high-fidelity IR simulation, a set of software tools has been developed to afford an efficient means of generating IR-specific characteristics for inclusion in the IG database. These tools blend the physics of the scene, atmosphere, and sensor with the requirements of the mission to be simulated and the 1G system to be used.

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Heiner Biesel and Tom Rohlfing "Real-Time Simulated Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) Imagery For Training", Proc. SPIE 0781, Infrared Image Processing and Enhancement, (16 September 1987); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.940535

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