MULTISPECTRAL DATA PROCESSING

AN INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGY HAS BEEN DEVELOPED, BASED ON THE STATE-OF-THE-ART INTERACTIVE DATA ACQUISITION, IMAGE PROCESSING AND SEGMENTATION ANALYSIS. IN PHASE I WE SHALL UNDERTAKE TO CARRY OUT A PROOF-OF-CONCEPT STUDY TO DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY OF USING PATTERN RECOGNITION TECHNIQUES TO ANALYZE MULTI-SENSOR INPUTS AND EXTRACT THE TARGET INFORMATION. AS A RESULT WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP AND TEST A COMPREHENSIVE AUTOMATED INFLIGHT TRACKING SYSTEM, WHICH BE COMBINING A PRIORI TARGET INFORMATION, COMPUTER GRAPHICS METHODS, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES IS CAPABLE OF INJESTING MULTISENSOR INPUT STREAMS AND OF PRODUCING THREE-DIMENSION IMAGE, SIX DIMENSIONAL DATA (POSITION AND ATTITUDE), AS WELL AS ACCURATE RECONSTRUCTION OF A SIX-DIMENSIONAL TARGET TRAJECTORY (POSITION AND ATTITUDE AS A FUNCTION OF TIME).