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The Multispectral-Hyperspectral Sensing System (MHSS) comprises a control center, a surveillance platform and at least one weapon battery with known sensing and destroying capabilities. The control center has access to pre-existing information relating to the target scene and potential targets, alth

The Multispectral-Hyperspectral Sensing System (MHSS) comprises a control center, a surveillance platform and at least one weapon battery with known sensing and destroying capabilities. The control center has access to pre-existing information relating to the target scene and potential targets, although not necessarily current, as well as the capabilities and limitations of the available weapons. This pre-existing information is communicated to the surveillance platform to be used in collecting hyperspectral/multispectral image data of the target scenery and to derive from the collected image data the relevant current target data subset. The derived data subset is then down-linked to the control center, which performs further processing to make it useful to the selected weapon. The weapon receives the target signature update from the control center and, in response, performs a significantly more precise strike at the selected target than based just on the a priori knowledge base.

대표청구항 ▼

1. A system for performing acquisition and a more accurate discrimination of a stationary or mobile target object in any given scene so that a closer subsequent match can be made between said target object and an end user having known requirements and thus enable a more complete contact between said

1. A system for performing acquisition and a more accurate discrimination of a stationary or mobile target object in any given scene so that a closer subsequent match can be made between said target object and an end user having known requirements and thus enable a more complete contact between said target object and said end user, said system comprising: a surveillance platform, said platform being suitably positioned for surveilling a given scene and having a means for collecting hyperspectral and multispectral data of said scene and processing said data to derive therefrom a data subset, said data subset having a reduced dimensionality and being compatible with said known requirements of said end user while containing the essential information relative to said target object; a data base of pre-existing information relative to said scene and said known requirements of said end user; a control center coupled between said surveillance platform and said end user, said control center having access to said data base; and a bi-directional communication means linking said control center to said platform and said end user, said communication link enabling said center to forward said pre-exiting information to said platform so that said platform, in response, performs surveillance of pre-selected regions of said scene and returns to said center target object data that has been selectively reduced to correspond with said known requirements of said end user, said control center performing selective re-formatting of said reduced data prior to forwarding said data to said end user, thereby enabling said user to make a more complete contact with said target object.