Accession Number:

AD0435746

Title:

EFFECTS OF TELEVISION BANDWIDTH ON TARGET IDENTIFICATION,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

NAVAL MISSILE CENTER POINT MUGU CALIF

Personal Author(s):

• Shanahan,Dennis

Report Date:

1964-04-03

Pagination or Media Count:

12.0

Abstract:

A laboratory test program was conducted to evaluate the effects of video signal bandwidth and target contrast ratio on visual target identification. The results of the tests indicate that 1 reducing the target contrast ratio degrades target identification abilities 2 reducing the video signal bandwidth degrades target identification abilities 3 the ability to identify targets is degraded less by video bandwidth reductions for low contrast targets than it is degraded by high contrast targets 4 the ability to identify targets is degraded less by target contrast ratio reductions when using a narrow video bandwidth rather than using a wide video bandwidth. Author

Descriptors:

• *TELEVISION GUIDANCE
• *VIDEO SIGNALS
• TARGET RECOGNITION
• PERFORMANCE(ENGINEERING)
• BANDWIDTH
• SENSITIVITY
• COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS
• BRIGHTNESS
• TARGETS
• TELEVISION CAMERAS
• TELEVISION DISPLAY SYSTEMS
• RANGE(DISTANCE)
• RESOLUTION

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Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE