Cruise Missiles

Production monitoring for arms control

“…It has been proposed that cruise missiles with efficient turbofan engines be counted as nuclear strategic and all cruise missiles with less efficient turbojet engines be allowed as tactical. 7 Whether this proposal has merit or not, it is not a distinction that can be verified easily with production monitoring because the engines of cruise missiles are only about three feet long and eighteen inches in diameter; two men can easily lift one. The engine parts are small and final engine assembly takes place at a work bench.…”

Assessing the risk from the depleted uranium weapons used in Operation Allied Force

“…The BGM-109 model weighs 1192 kg, has a length of 5.56 m, and a diameter of 51.8 cm ( without the booster ). A rough estimate of the typical weight of its airframe is 400 kg [10]. Besides, in the same category we have to include the Air Force's Conventional Air Launched Cruise Missile CALCM .…”

Image Correlation with Geometric Distortion Part 1: Acquisition Performance

“…sensor image = Is(x) = Pd(x) + N(x) (2) where x = (xI, x2) denotes the two-dimensional variable in the image plane. The reference image is assumed to contain a smaller portion of the image plane than the sensor image.…”

“…Applications of image registration are numerous. One wellknown application is guidance for unmanned vehicles [1,2]; another potential application is velocity updating of an aircraft navigation system by registering successive images of the ground beneath the aircraft [3]. Image registration is a preliminary step in many scene analysis tasks, such as change detection [4] .…”