EOSTAR: Electro-Optical Signal Transmission and Ranging
conference paper
The integrated model EOSTAR (Electro-Optical Signal Transmission and Ranging) is being developed to predict the performance of electro-optical (EO) sensor systems in the marine atmospheric surface layer. The model allows the user to define camera systems, atmospheric conditions and target characteristics, and it uses standard (shipboard) meteorological data to calculate atmospheric effects such as refraction, turbulence, spectrally resolved transmission, path- and background radiation. Alternatively, the user may specify atmospheric conditions, either interactively or in data files with a flexible format. Atmospheric effects can be presented graphically as distorted images of synthetically generated targets with spatially distributed emission properties. EOSTAR is a completely mouse-driven PC Windows program with a user-friendly interface and extensive help files. Many calculations are performed in real-time, although transmission and radiance take from a few seconds up to the order of ten seconds to complete for each new meteorological condition. The program can be used in a wide range of applications, e.g., for operational planning and instruction
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TNO Identifier
186377
Article nr.
7.07
Source title
Battlespace Atmospheric Cloud Impacts on Military Operations - BACIMO 2003, 9-11 September 2003, Monterey, CA, USA.
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