Limitations of unaided eye visual target detection from high speed low flying aircraft correlated with target background environment.

Author(s)
Wernicke, B.K.
Year
Abstract

In this report the field of view from low-flying aircraft is investigated with regard to the minimum contrast ratio required between a target and its immediate environment during the winter months, in order that it be detectable by the unaided eye of the observer.

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B 3091 /01/83/
Source

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Air Force Avionics Laboratory, 1973, 55, p. fig., graph., tab.; Technical Report AFAL-TR-72-188 / NTIS AD-759651

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