A compact deployable mid-wave infrared imaging system for wide-area persistence surveillance in maritime environments

K. Peter Judd; Costa M. Colbert; Russ Smith; Ken Vilardebo; Jim Waterman; Greg Petty; Joel Kilzer

doi:10.1117/12.919207

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31 May 2012 A compact deployable mid-wave infrared imaging system for wide-area persistence surveillance in maritime environments

K. Peter Judd, Costa M. Colbert, Russ Smith, Ken Vilardebo, Jim Waterman, Greg Petty, Joel Kilzer

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Proceedings Volume 8353, Infrared Technology and Applications XXXVIII; 83530O (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.919207
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2012, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Abstract

The development, integration and testing of a compact system for wide-area persistence surveillance in dedicated maritime environments is presented. The system is based around a large-format, 2560 x 512 pixel focal plane array, high dynamic range (16 bit), mid-wave infrared (MWIR) imager operating at 30 Hz that is equipped with a 90° horizontal field-of-view (HFOV) lens. The digitized image data is fed to a standard commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) workstation equipped with a graphical processing unit (GPU) that is used to perform image de-warping, non-uniformity corrections, and algorithms for real-time object detection and tracking (NRL Harbor Tracking Software-NRLHaTS). Data is presented from several field experiments that illustrate the capabilities of the integrated system.

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K. Peter Judd, Costa M. Colbert, Russ Smith, Ken Vilardebo, Jim Waterman, Greg Petty, and Joel Kilzer "A compact deployable mid-wave infrared imaging system for wide-area persistence surveillance in maritime environments", Proc. SPIE 8353, Infrared Technology and Applications XXXVIII, 83530O (31 May 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.919207

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