Object tracking through the atmosphere using adaptive optics

Vidal F. Canales; Jose E. Oti; Daniel Munoz de Juana; Manuel Perez Cagigal

doi:10.1117/12.462448

20 March 2003 Object tracking through the atmosphere using adaptive optics

Vidal F. Canales, Jose E. Oti, Daniel Munoz de Juana, Manuel Perez Cagigal

Proceedings Volume 4884, Optics in Atmospheric Propagation and Adaptive Systems V; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.462448
Event: International Symposium on Remote Sensing, 2002, Crete, Greece

Abstract

An increasing number of both civilian and military applications require the motion description of translating targets from a sequence of frames acquired through long atmospheric paths. These images are randomly distorted, due to atmospheric turbulence, although adaptive optics systems can partially compensate for this distortion in real time. In these adverse conditions, a velocimetry technique that is based on the spatio-temporal Fourier transform of a series of images presents several advantageous features. In those cases where the target is very dim or an additional processing time reduction is needed, low-light-level images are recorded. Consequently, we have developed a simulation algorithm that generates atmospherically distorted low-light-level images corresponding to different atmospheric conditions and different degrees of compensation. In this paper, simulated low-light-level images are used to analyze the technique accuracy for estimating the object velocity for several atmospheric conditions and for different correction degrees.

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Vidal F. Canales, Jose E. Oti, Daniel Munoz de Juana, and Manuel Perez Cagigal "Object tracking through the atmosphere using adaptive optics", Proc. SPIE 4884, Optics in Atmospheric Propagation and Adaptive Systems V, (20 March 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.462448

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