APPLICATIONS

THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFRARED IMAGE INTERPRETATION METHODS REQUIRES A VERY LARGE NUMBER AND VARIETY OF IMAGES WHICH ACCURATELY REPRESENT THE RANGE OF IMAGING CONDITIONS IN WHICH THE INTERPRETATION SYSTEM WILL BE WORKING. INFRARED MODELING TECHNIQUES AND DATA BASES HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED OVERY MANY YEARS AND USED AT SURFACE OPTICS AND MANY OTHER FACILITIES IN OBSERVABLES CONTROL, SIGNATURE PREDICTION, DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF COUNTERMEASURES, AND RELATED FIELDS. THESE MODELING TECHNIQUES CAN MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO PRODUCE THE REQUIRED SCOPE AND NUMBER OF INFRARED IMAGES MUCH MORE ECONOMICALLY AND QUICKLY THAN WOULD BE POSSIBLE BY DIRECT MEASUREMENTS, AND IN TURN MAKE IT FEASIBLE TO FULLY DEVELOP AND PROVE ADVANCED INFRARED IMAGE INTERPRETATION TECHNIQUES. A PHASE I PROGRAM IS PROPOSED TO DEMONSTRATE THE PRODUCTION AND USE OF IR IMAGES PRODUCED BY MODELING. THE SOFTWARE ENSEMBLE MADE IN PHASE I TO PRODUCE INFRATED IMAGES COULD BE USED WITH AN EXPANDED DATA BASE IN PHASE II TO PRODUCE LARGER AND MORE COMPLETE SETS OF IMAGES, AND FOR THE TESTING AND DEVELOPMENT OF MORE ADVANCED INTERPRETATION TECHNIQUES.