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Title: Tracking through turbulence at the Tonopah Test Range

Abstract

This report discusses the deleterious effects of turbulence on tracking images at the Tonopah Test Range and the means to overcome them. After reviewing the existing technologies used to compensate for optical aberrations in real-time and trying to restore sample images by using computer algorithms, we have concluded that raising the camera 20 to 30 ft is a simple, and probably the only, expedient available to overcome most of the turbulence problem at that facility. Previous experimental and theoretical studies, as well as our own photographic study, support that conclusion.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
OSTI Identifier:
6012233
Report Number(s):
SAND-87-1111
ON: DE88001448
DOE Contract Number:  
AC04-76DP00789
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products. Original copy available until stock is exhausted
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGES; OPTICAL DISPERSION; DIGITAL FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICS; PHOTOGRAPHIC FILM DETECTORS; PHOTOGRAPHY; REFRACTIVITY; TONOPAH TEST RANGE; TURBULENCE; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PROCESSING; RADIATION DETECTORS; TEST FACILITIES; 640200* - Atmospheric Physics

Citation Formats

Weiss, J D. Tracking through turbulence at the Tonopah Test Range. United States: N. p., 1987. Web.
Weiss, J D. Tracking through turbulence at the Tonopah Test Range. United States.
Weiss, J D. 1987. "Tracking through turbulence at the Tonopah Test Range". United States.
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