Abstract Imaging systems that operate in the mid-infrared spectrum have a lot of potential for use in military trackers and weapon systems. Edge detection is the primary means from which a target's spatial and trajectory features are derived. Targets are separated from the image background using edge detection in a process called segmentation. Typical edge detection techniques employ thresholding operators to emphasize the areas in an image where intensity changes significantly. Techniques have...

Abstract At the present, the U.S. Army requires its moving platforms to transmit the estimate of their own position at a fixed interval over the existing communication links, the Tactical Internet. This approach places great demand on the system bandwidth because the position information of every moving platform had to be transmitted even when its track variance is within the specified position error limit. If the position error is small, it is not necessary to transmit the position update for...