Applications Overview Of Battlefield Obscurant Parameters Measured In U.S. Army Tests

J.Gary Nelson

doi:10.1117/12.934028

23 June 1983 Applications Overview Of Battlefield Obscurant Parameters Measured In U.S. Army Tests

J.Gary Nelson

Proceedings Volume 0356, Field Measurement and Calibration Using Electro-Optical Equipment; (1983) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.934028
Event: 26th Annual Technical Symposium, 1982, San Diego, United States

Abstract

The characterization of the obscuring medium that one might find on the battlefield of the future is an extremely vital effort because of the communities that could be well served by it. Among these communities are the combat developers or battle planners who look to the way we use our weaponry and personnel to accomplish various military goals; the trainer who develops proficiency in the utilization of our weaponry; the designer of electro-optical devices which serve the weaponry and the designer of obscurants themselves. However, very few of the instruments that we carry to the field to characterize obscurants either directly or indirectly characterize the obscured condition well. This paper will talk to the limitations of some of this instrumentation and to the way the data is being reduced, used and possibly misused.

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J.Gary Nelson "Applications Overview Of Battlefield Obscurant Parameters Measured In U.S. Army Tests", Proc. SPIE 0356, Field Measurement and Calibration Using Electro-Optical Equipment, (23 June 1983); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.934028

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