Accession Number:

AD0637720

Title:

TARGET OBSCURATION FROM INTERVENING LIGHT SOURCES: A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION.

Descriptive Note:

Technical note.

Corporate Author:

HUMAN ENGINEERING LABS ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD

Personal Author(s):

• Eckles,Andrew J. , III
• Garry,Thomas A.

Report Date:

1966-05-01

Pagination or Media Count:

20.0

Abstract:

The preliminary experiment examined how an intervening light source affects target obscuration. More specifically, this experiment estimated how target obscuration depends on variables such as target brightness, intensity of intervening light source, target range, and range of the intervening light source. These results, while limited to data from two subjects, point the way to more detailed and sophisticated experimentation. Author

Descriptors:

• (*TARGET RECOGNITION
• INTERFERENCE)
• (*LIGHT
• INTERFERENCE)
• BRIGHTNESS
• TARGET ACQUISITION
• ILLUMINATION
• VISUAL PERCEPTION

Subject Categories:

• Psychology
• Human Factors Engineering and Man Machine Systems

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE