Object/Detection/Position System Functional and Operational Requirements for the HSCT: Background, Studies and Rationale

The objective of the present effort was to identify initial requirements for the object/detection/positioning (ODP) system. The ODP system is part of the External Vision System (XVS) which consists of sensors, image processing, image enhancement and object detection capabilities. Components of this total system replace transparent structures with optical properties (i.e., forward windows). The requirement of the ODP system is to fill potential performance gaps in a forward vision system that uses some combination of visual-band, high-resolution, infrared, radar sensors, image processing plus a display system. For example, ODP system requirements include detection of objects beyond the resolution and field of view of a video-based system.