Night Vision Goggles (AN/PVS-7)-Performance Issues and Answers

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Abstract:

During 1987, pursuant to a tasking by the Undersecretary of the Army through the Institute for Defense Analysis, the US Army CECOM Center for Night Vision and Electro-Optics C2NVEO carried out a comprehensive series of studies to characterize the spectral content of night sky irradiance across the spectral sensitivity bands of second and third generation ANPVS-7 Night Vision Goggles. This effort was then logically extended to the development of a detailed comparative performance analysis of night vision goggles within the true spectral characterization of the night sky environment. Several related issues were also of concern to the Undersecretary, including the effect of various bandpass and notch spectral filters with goggles, and finally the operational life and reliability of night vision goggles.

Author(s):
Morrow, Walter B., Jr.
Author Organization(s):
CENTER FOR NIGHT VISION AND ELECTRO-OPTICS FORT BELVOIR VA
Descriptive Note:
Final rept. 1986-1988
Supplementary Note:
DOI: 10.21236/ADA206117
Pagination:
0046

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DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

Distribution:
Approved For Public Release

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Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Report Number(s):
AMSEL-NV-TR-0075
Monitor Series:
AMSEL-NV
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_5.2_Understand; JCA_4.3_Maintain; JCA_5.5.2_Task; JCA_5.5_Direct; JCA_1.2.1_Training; JCA_1.2.5_Lessons Learned; JCA_5.2.2_Develop Knowledge and Situational Awareness
Modernization Areas:
Fully Networked C3
Communities of Interest:
Energy and Power Technologies
Descriptor(s):
*OPTICS, *NIGHT VISION DEVICES, *GOGGLES, ENVIRONMENTS, DEFENSE SYSTEMS, PERFORMANCE TESTS, SENSITIVITY, RELIABILITY, SPECTRA, RADIANCE, NIGHT VISION, BAND SPECTRA, BANDPASS FILTERS, RADIOFREQUENCY FILTERS, NIGHT SKY
Field(s)/Group(s):
Optical Detection and Detectors
Report Date:
1989 Mar 01