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CONFERENCE 9452 · LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 341Tuesday–Thursday 21–23 April 2015 • Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 9452Infrared Imaging Systems: Design, Analysis,Modeling, and Testing XXVIConference Chairs: Gerald C. Holst, JCD Publishing (USA); Keith A. Krapels, U.S. Army Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate (USA)Program Committee: Gary H. Ballard, U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (USA); Gisele Bennett, Georgia Instituteof Technology (USA); Piet Bijl, TNO Defence, Security and Safety (Netherlands); James A. Buford Jr., U.S. Army Research, Development andEngineering Command (USA); James A. Dawson, Dynetics, Inc. (USA); Ronald G. Driggers, St. Johns Optical Systems (USA); Richard L.Espinola, U.S. Army Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate (USA); David P. Forrai, L-3 Communications Cincinnati Electronics (USA);Jonathan G. Hixson, U.S. Army Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate (USA); Alan Irwin, Santa Barbara Infrared, Inc. (USA); Eddie L.Jacobs, Univ. of Memphis (USA); Terrence S. Lomheim, The Aerospace Corp. (USA); R. Lee Murrer Jr., Millennium Engineering and IntegrationCo. (USA); Teresa L. Pace, SenTech, LLC- A DSCI Co. (USA); Hector M. Reyes, Raytheon Co. (USA); Endre Repasi, Fraunhofer-Institut fürOptronik, Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung (Germany); Joseph P. Reynolds, U.S. Army Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate (USA);Bernard M. Rosier, ONERA (France); Michael A. Soel, FLIR Systems, Inc. (USA); Andrew W. Sparks, L-3 Sonoma EO (USA); Curtis M. Webb,Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems (USA)TUESDAY 21 APRILSESSION 1LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 341 ...........TUE 8:30 AM TO 11:50 AMTesting and SystemsSession Chairs: Alan Irwin, Santa Barbara Infrared, Inc. (USA);Curtis M. Webb, Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems (USA)8:30 am: Black-box imager characterization, from measurements tomodeling range performance (Invited Paper), David P. Haefner, Stephen D.Burks, Brian P. Teaney, U.S. Army RDECOM CERDEC NVESD (USA) . . [9452-1]9:00 am: Characterizing a high-resolution CRT display performance usinga Prichard photometer with microscanner, Balvinder Kaur, Jeff T. Olson,Jonathan G. Hixson, U.S. Army Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate(USA) .....................................................[9452-2]9:20 am: Validating machine vision MRT performance against trainedobserver performance for linear shift invariant sensors, Stephen D. Burks,Joshua M. Doe, U.S. Army Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate(USA) .....................................................[9452-3]9:40 am: Advanced E-O test capability for Army Next-GenerationAutomated Test System (NGATS), Fred King, Steve W. McHugh, Steve Errea,James McKechnie, Brian Nehring, Gregory P. Matis, Santa Barbara Infrared,Inc. (USA)..................................................[9452-4]Coffee Break ................................ Tue 10:00 am to 10:30 am10:30 am: Signal intensity transfer function determination on thermalsystems with stray light and scattering present, Stephen D. Burks, U.S. ArmyNight Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate (USA) ................[9452-5]10:50 am: Measuring noise equivalent irradiance of a digital short-waveinfrared imaging system using a broadband source to simulate the nightspectrum, Tim Robinson, John Green, Esterline Control & CommunicationSystems (USA)..............................................[9452-6]11:10 am: Statistical analysis of target acquisition sensor modelingexperiments, Dawne M. Deaver, Steven K. Moyer, U.S. Army Night Vision &Electronic Sensors Directorate (USA) ............................[9452-7]11:30 am: Panoramic sensor requirements for military vehicles, OrgesFurxhi, Ronald G. Driggers, St. Johns Optical Systems (USA); Bradley L. Preece,Keith A. Krapels, U.S. Army Night Vision & Electronic Sensors Directorate(USA) .....................................................[9452-8]Lunch/Exhibition Break ......................... Tue 11:50 am to 1:20 pmSESSION 2LOCATION: CONV. CTR. ROOM 341 ............TUE 1:20 PM TO 3:00 PMTargets, Backgrounds and AtmosphericsSession Chairs: Richard L. Espinola, U.S. Army RDECOM CERDECNVESD (USA); Endre Repasi, Fraunhofer-Institut für Optronik,Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung (Germany);Bernard M. Rosier, ONERA (France)1:20 pm: Simulation of a polarized laser beam reflected at the sea surface:modeling and validation, Frédéric Schwenger, Fraunhofer-Institut für Optronik,Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung (Germany) ....................[9452-9]1:40 pm: Detector integration time-dependent atmospheric turbulenceimaging simulation, Todd W. Du Bosq, U.S. Army Night Vision & ElectronicSensors Directorate (USA); Endre Repasi, Fraunhofer-Institut für Optronik,Systemtechnik und Bildauswertung (Germany) ...................[9452-10]2:00 pm: Automatic parameter estimation for atmospheric turbulencemitigation techniques, Stephen Kozacik, Aaron L. Paolini, Eric J. Kelmelis, EMPhotonics, Inc. (USA) .......................................[9452-12]2:20 pm: Atmospheric turbulence and sensor system effects on biometricalgorithm performance, Richard L. Espinola, Kevin R. Leonard, U.S. ArmyRDECOM CERDEC NVESD (USA); Kenneth A. Byrd, U.S. Army Night Vision& Electronic Sensors Directorate (USA); Guy Potvin, Defence Research andDevelopment Canada, Valcartier (Canada) .......................[9452-13]2:40 pm: An adaptive tracker for ShipIR/NTCS, Srinivasan Ramaswamy,David A. Vaitekunas, W. R. Davis Engineering, Ltd. (Canada) ........[9452-14]INTERACTIVE POSTER SESSION: TUESDAY EVENINGLOCATION: CONV. CTR. LEVEL 200 MEZZANINE ...TUE 6:00 TO 7:30 PMAll symposium attendees – You are invited to attend the evening Interactive PosterSession to view the high-quality posters and engage the authors in discussion.Enjoy light refreshments while networking with colleagues in your field. Authorsmay set up their posters between 7:30 am and 12:00 noon the day of their postersession. Special daytime previewing prior to the session from 12:00 noon to4:30 pm. Attendees are required to wear their conference registration badges toaccess Level 200, Mezzanine to view the posters.Posters that are not set up by the 5:00 pm cut-off time will be considered noshows,and their manuscripts may not be published. Poster authors shouldaccompany their posters from 6:00 to 7:30 pm to answer questions fromattendees. All posters and other materials must be removed no later than 8:00pm. Any posters or materials left behind at the close of the poster session will beconsidered unwanted and will be discarded. SPIE assumes no responsibility forposters left up after the end of each poster session.46 SPIE DSS 2015 · www.spie.org/dssNew night vision goggle gain definition, Vyacheslav B. Podobedov,George P. Eppeldauer, Thomas C. Larason, National Institute of Standards andTechnology (USA) ..........................................[9452-38]Application and validation of a S/W developed for IR signal simulation byusing the measured data from a moving test ship, Kuk-Il Han,Dong-Geon Kim, Jun-Hyuk Choi, Tae-Kuk Kim, Chung-Ang Univ. (Korea,Republic of) ...............................................[9452-39]Contrast performance modeling of broadband IR imaging systems withtunable filter fore-optics, Van A. Hodgkin, U.S. Army RDECOM CERDECNVESD (USA)..............................................[9452-40]