Target Acquisition:
Jul 1, 1998 — The criteria that the military uses to develop its targeting and surveillance imagers may be useful to those who are developing other types of imaging systems, such as microscopes, machine vision systems, consumer digital cameras and surveillance cameras. Regardless of the application, a relationship exists between the optical sensor's field of view, its magnification, and its ability to provide data that is meaningful for visual discrimination tasks. In fact, the elements of "target...