Modeling human search and target acquisition performance: III. target detection in the presence of obscurants

Stanley R. Rotman; E. S. Gordon; Marta L. Kowalczyk

doi:10.1117/12.55852

1 June 1991 Modeling human search and target acquisition performance: III. target detection in the presence of obscurants

Stanley R. Rotman, E. S. Gordon, Marta L. Kowalczyk

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 30, Issue 6, (June 1991). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.55852

Abstract

The effect of dynamically changing visibility conditions on target acquisition is considered. A model is described that takes as input the statistical characterization ofthe obscurant and the physical char acteristics of the target; the output is the probability of detection as a function of time. Analysis indicates that the variation of the obscurant as a function of time greatly affects the predicted target detection times and, hence, the utility of the infrared system in realistic scenarios.

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Stanley R. Rotman, E. S. Gordon, and Marta L. Kowalczyk "Modeling human search and target acquisition performance: III. target detection in the presence of obscurants," Optical Engineering 30(6), (1 June 1991). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.55852

Published: 1 June 1991

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