A Comparison of Monocular, Biocular, and Binocular Night Vision Goggles for Traversing Off-Road Terrain on Foot.

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Abstract:

The performance of humans who traversed off-road terrain while wearing monocular, biocular, and binocular night vision goggles was examined. The difficulties that each of 35 male participants encountered while walking through rough terrain and wearing the three types of goggles were scored by independent observers. Participants themselves also rated several qualities of the goggles and ranked the goggles overall. In general, results indicated that the binocular goggle yielded better performance and was preferred to the other two goggles and that the biocular and the monocular goggles showed no consistent difference for any of the four sets of dependent measures.

Author(s):
Cuqlock-knopp, V. G. ; Torgerson, Warren ; Sipes, Dawn E. ; Bender, Edward ; Merritt, John O.
Author Organization(s):
ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD
Descriptive Note:
Final rept.,
Supplementary Note:
DOI: 10.21236/ADA294018
Pagination:
0047

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DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

Distribution:
Approved For Public Release

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Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Report Number(s):
ARL-TR-747
Project Number(s):
1L161102B74A
Monitor Series:
ARL*
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_1.2.7_Experimentation; JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_1_Force Support; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_1.3_Human Capital Management; JCA_1.3.2_Personnel Management; JCA_1.2_Force Preparation; JCA_5.5.2_Task; JCA_5.5_Direct; JCA_6.4.1_Secure Information Exchange; JCA_6_Net Centric; JCA_4.6_Engineering; JCA_8_Building Partnerships
Communities of Interest:
Human Systems
Descriptor(s):
*NIGHT VISION DEVICES, *GOGGLES, *BINOCULARS, OBSERVERS, PERFORMANCE(HUMAN), WALKING, TERRAIN, VISION, VISUAL PERCEPTION, ROUGHNESS, OFFROAD TRAFFIC, SPACE PERCEPTION, TRAVERSING MECHANISMS
Field(s)/Group(s):
Optical Detection and Detectors
Keyword(s):
*NIGHT VISION GOGGLES, PE61102A
Report Date:
1995 Mar 01