A spectral independent morphological adaptive classifier

Joel B. Montgomery; Christine T. Montgomery; Richard B. Sanderson; John F. McCalmont

doi:10.1117/12.719890

7 May 2007 A spectral independent morphological adaptive classifier

Joel B. Montgomery, Christine T. Montgomery, Richard B. Sanderson, John F. McCalmont

Proceedings Volume 6567, Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, and Target Recognition XVI; 65671E (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.719890
Event: Defense and Security Symposium, 2007, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Effective missile warning and countermeasures continue to be an unfulfilled goal for the Air Force and DOD community. To make the expectations a reality, sensors exhibiting the required sensitivity, field of regard, and spatial resolution are being pursued. The largest concern is in the first stage of a missile warning system, detection, in which all targets need to be detected with a high confidence and with very few false alarms. Typical sensors are limited in their detection capability by the presence of heavy background clutter, sun glints, and inherent sensor noise. Many threat environments include false alarm sources like burning fuels, flares, exploding ordinance, and industrial emitters. Multicolor discrimination is one of the effective ways of improving the performance of missile warning sensors, particularly for heavy clutter situations. Its utility has been demonstrated in multiple fielded systems. Utilization of the background and clutter spectral content, coupled with additional spatial and temporal filtering techniques, have resulted in a robust adaptive real-time algorithm to increase signal-to-clutter ratios against point targets. The algorithm is outlined and results against tactical data are summarized and compared in terms of computational cost expected to be implemented on a real-time field-programmable gate array (FPGA) processor.

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Joel B. Montgomery, Christine T. Montgomery, Richard B. Sanderson, and John F. McCalmont "A spectral independent morphological adaptive classifier", Proc. SPIE 6567, Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, and Target Recognition XVI, 65671E (7 May 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.719890

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