Image Exploitation System for Airborne Surveillance

Document Number: 2007-01-3912

Date Published: September 2007

Author(s):
P. Karunakaran - HCL Technologies, Ltd.
Frederick Mathews - HCL Technologies, Ltd.
S. H. Padmanabhan - HCL Technologies, Ltd.

Abstract:
The operational design of Image exploitation system to process real-time video and flight data acquired by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is presented. The system comprises of image-processing tasks along with image-processing applications embedded on vision processor board. Image exploitation makes use of image-processing algorithms for information extraction using selective and adaptive techniques such as image enhancements, filtering, automatic target tracking, and computation of geo-reference location of target. The system operates in real-time mode to display mission parameters on a multi-display system. The results indicated the system is qualified to be used for surveillance applications. A sample set of the results are presented.

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