I2.4 - Perception Range Prediction for IR Pilot Sight
- Event
- SENSOR+TEST Conferences 2009
2009-05-26 - 2009-05-28
Congress Center Nürnberg - Band
- Proceedings OPTO 2009 & IRS² 2009
- Chapter
- IRS² 2 - Pyrometry/Thermography
- Author(s)
- R. Weiss - FGAN-FOM Research Institute for Optronics and Pattern Recognition, Ettlingen, Germany
- Pages
- 227 - 232
- DOI
- 10.5162/irs09/i2.4
- ISBN
- 978-3-9810993-6-2
- Price
- free
Abstract
The new helicopters of the Bundeswehr, the UH Tiger and the NH-90, are equipped with a far-infrared Pilot Sight Unit (PSU). This sensor is used for both navigation and obstacle avoidance. At the beginning of our project, there was no established procedure to predict the IR viewing range under given weather conditions. Aviation safety guidelines, however, require a pre-flight assessment of prevalent viewing conditions for a given sensor. A high priority project was started by the German Office of Defense Technology and Procurement (BWB) where our institute cooperated with the Geophysical Institute of the Bundeswehr (AGeoBw), the General of Army Aviation (GenHFlg) and the Bundeswehr Technical Centers WTD 61 and WTD 91. The software package IRNAV, which resulted from this project, is in experimental use by the Bundeswehr since March 2007.