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Glint Reduction in Staring Focal Plane Array Mid-Wave Thermal Imagers Employing Microscanning

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N00024-04-C-4510
Agency Tracking Number: N042-170-0352
Amount: $99,626.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N04-170
Solicitation Number: 2004.2
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2004
Award Year: 2004
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2004-10-19
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2005-04-17
Small Business Information
3525 Del Mar Heights Rd, Suite 581
San Diego, CA 92130
United States
DUNS: 119613599
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Leo Volfson
 President
 (858) 382-7200
 lbv@tplogic.com
Business Contact
 Dale Johnson
Title: Director of Engineering
Phone: (858) 755-4549
Email: djohnson@tplogic.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

The problem of efficient clutter suppression is a challenge for shipboard IRST systems that have to provide reliable detection/tracking of cruise missiles in sea glint. In such systems, reliable target tracking is impossible without clutter rejection down to the level of sensor noise. The proposal is geared towards development of novel parametric and nonparametric spatial-temporal techniques for clutter rejection and image stabilization; nonlinear filtering techniques for track-before-detect and tracking; improving performance of the clutter filtering and jitter compensation algorithms; development of a bank of clutter suppression/stabilization filters with outlier compensation and an adaptive, reconfigurable architecture; and testing/demonstrating the capabilities of the developed technology in realistic environments. It is demonstrated that the proposed spatial-temporal methods are particularly efficient for target detection/tracking in difficult scenarios when spatial-only filters completely fail. The developed software imbedded into a GUI interface will constitute a powerful tool for the optimization of operational target detection/tracking systems in conditions of interest. These software tools will be also capable of predicting the performance and reducing to a minimum the time needed to search for an "optimal" system configuration in NAVY programs/systems.

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