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THIS PROPOSAL SEEKS TO ESTABLISH THE FEASIBILITY OF APPLYING NEWLY DEVELOPED MORPHOLOGY-BASED DETECTION ALGORITHMS TO THE POWERLINE DETECTION PROBLEM IN SAR AND MULTISPECTRAL IMAGERY AND TO DESIGN AN OVERALL PROGRAM TO INTEGRATE THIS TECHNOLOGY INTO A COMPLETE MAP VALIDATION AND UPDATING SYSTEM. THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS OUR APPROACH IS TWOFOLD. FIRST, DETECTION PERFORMANCE CAN BE DRAMATICALLY IMPROV ...

The success of DoD's thrusts in Global Surveillance and Precision Strike depends critically on the ability to perform Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) and Hostile Target Identification (HTI). The technologies of modeling, sensor data fusion and adaptive intelligent image processing are key to the success of ATR and HTI. An innovative approach to intelligent model-based image processing and tar ...

recent advances in sensor technology have enabled collection of vast quantities of battlefield information. Warfighters will soon gain global access to this huge volume of information. Rather than construct separate redundant, and inconsistent situation estimates, a Dynamic Database can reduce the data to a comprehensive, self-consistent representation of the environment. This proposal explores ...

A demonstration of Broadband Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) for PCS communications overlaid in the 800 MHz AMPS cellular band will be conducted. Broadband CDMA using direct sequence spread spectrum has significant military advantages of jamming immunity and low probability of intercept. It is also the most promising of the new concepts for high capacity commercial cellular radio because of ...

Current standard military body armor and helmets are designed to stop fragments, not bullets. A soldier's survivability and effectiveness will be enhanced by a new light weight body armor and helmet system which deflects bullets rather than stopping them. By covering all the oblique areas the soldier presents to the enemy in his standard fighting positions, the armor system will significantly re ...

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A dynamic Environment driven by real-world data is a crucial element in Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS). The synthetic Environments Program's Dynamic Terrain and Objects (DTO) project has developed an architecture for including a dynamic environment in distributed simulations. However, to date, heterogeneous applications have not been to interoperate. In addition, the long-term success ...

Acoustic and seismic sensors have become the technology of choice for Unattended Ground Sensors. Military vehicles have loud and distinctive signatures which can be detected at remarkable distances. In order to minimize the size and cost of the proposed sensors, SenTech proposes to use a single microphone and a three component geophone as the sensor's transducers. SenTech's proposals incorporat ...

Various diesel reforming methods have been tried to develop an efficient and reliable means of providing hydrogen to fuel cell power systems promising high efficiency and low pollution. The most difficult obstacle has been coking up of reformers. Aspen proposes to solve the coking problem through an approach based on two proprietary technologies: catalytic diesel cracking and hydrogen separati ...

Active Devices proposes an innovation for energy harvesting using piezoelectric based approaches to extract energy from mechanical vibrations. This innovation consists of a piezoelectric element for energy transduction, rectifier circuits for extraction, and storage devices to store power for use by other devices. Ideal models predict that a 1" x1" x.010" piezoelectric wafer undergoing moderate ...