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NIGHT VISION T H E R M A L I M A G E R Y SEEING THROUGH THE DARK With the importance of dismounted soldiers so strongly brought to the fore by the counter-insurgency campaigns of the last decade, the range of products intended to increase their effectiveness in terms of target detection, recognition and identification in all weathers and light conditions has grown dramatically and the technology continues to evolve. by Peter Donaldson 34 l ASIAN MILITARY REVIEW l
NIGHT VISION T H E R M A L I M A G E R Y DARPA’s Advanced Wide FoV Architectures for Image Reconstruction and Exploitation (AWARE) programme’s purpose is to drive technology for new sensors that will enable soldiers to see clearly in all weathers and light conditions © DARPA time or near it is a major driver behind the development of digital sensors with standard interfaces to link them with tactical communication systems such as personal role radios and fully integrated soldier systems. This important and lucrative market naturally attracts big hitters among systems houses from around the world including: BAE Systems, Cassidian Optronics, DRS Technologies, Elbit Systems, FLIR Systems Inc, Indra, ITT Exelis, L-3 Warrior Systems, Raytheon, Sagem DS, Selex ES, Thales and Vectronix, plus some notable smaller specialists such as OIP Sensor Systems, STS-EO (part of the US O’Gara Group) and Thermoteknix. There has also been huge growth in the number of form factors and mounting options available with a parallel drive for multi-sensor, switchable and even fused systems and a premium on modularity. For The emphasis is on increasing performance while reducing size, weight, cost and power consumption. While the basic sensor technology still relies on analogue image intensifiers sensitive to the visible spectrum and into the near infrared, and thermal imaging devices that operate in the mid-wave and long-wave portions of the spectrum, key performance parameters such as sensitivity, resolution and signal-to-noise ratios are all improving in both the smallest uncooled microbolometer thermal imagers and their higher-performing cooled cousins. The need to share information in real US soldiers demonstrate helmet-mounted fused I2 and thermal goggles and weapon-mounted night vision devices © ITT Exelis l JUNE/JULY <strong>2013</strong> l 35
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