Driving, Pilotage, and REMOTE-CONTROL Imaging Systems

Advancing technology makes piloting and driving under adverse visibility conditions possible. This book provides design guidelines for navigation imagers and explains the basis for those guidelines.

The technical level of this book is oriented toward a reader with an engineering background, but expertise in imager design is not needed, and the book’s mathematical level is limited to basic algebra. The book’s emphasis is on function and not theory. However, the book provides imager design details and the physical parameters needed to specify or model imaging hardware. This book is not intended for a general audience.

The material in Part 1 of this book is in the public domain. The work described in Part 1 was done by government employees and published in the collection of papers, reports, book chapters, and articles listed in the bibliography. This book re-visits the published material in order to make it readily available and also to provide a holistic view of the combined data. 

Part 2 of this book describes a value-added package to add color and thermal to a PVS-14 goggle. The concept provides high resolution image intensifier, color, and thermal imagery while adding minimal weight and cost to the PVS-14. The upgrade has application for military, police, hunting, search and rescue, any application that requires improved night vision capability.