Infrared and visible cooperative vehicle identification markings

Eoin S. O'Keefe; Peter N. Raven

doi:10.1117/12.665304

10 May 2006 Infrared and visible cooperative vehicle identification markings

Eoin S. O'Keefe, Peter N. Raven

Proceedings Volume 6201, Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense V; 620125 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.665304
Event: Defense and Security Symposium, 2006, Orlando (Kissimmee), Florida, United States

Abstract

Airborne surveillance helicopters and aeroplanes used by security and defence forces around the world increasingly rely on their visible band and thermal infrared cameras to prosecute operations such as the co-ordination of police vehicles during the apprehension of a stolen car, or direction of all emergency services at a serious rail crash. To perform their function effectively, it is necessary for the airborne officers to unambiguously identify police and the other emergency service vehicles. In the visible band, identification is achieved by placing high contrast symbols and characters on the vehicle roof. However, at the wavelengths at which thermal imagers operate, the dark and light coloured materials have similar low reflectivity and the visible markings cannot be discerned. Hence there is a requirement for a method of passively and unobtrusively marking vehicles concurrently in the visible and thermal infrared, over a large range of viewing angles. In this paper we discuss the design, detailed angle-dependent spectroscopic characterisation and operation of novel visible and infrared vehicle marking materials, and present airborne IR and visible imagery of materials in use.

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Eoin S. O'Keefe and Peter N. Raven "Infrared and visible cooperative vehicle identification markings", Proc. SPIE 6201, Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense V, 620125 (10 May 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.665304

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