Image measurement errors and missile performance

Description

The main objective of this study is to estimate errors in the measurement of the lengths of missiles or satellite launch vehicles from digital images available in the public domain when the scale or pixel size of the images is not known. Under the International Strategic and Security Studies Programme (ISSP) of the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), assessments of China’s ballistic and cruise missiles as well as Pakistan’s missile systems have been conducted earlier. In these studies, the dimensions of missiles were measured using ENVI 3.5 image processing software. Based on these measurements, propellant mass and lift-off mass were estimated using available engineering data and domain knowledge. The derived dataset from these measurements was then used to run typical trajectory simulations to estimate the range of the missiles.

Publication Date

1-1-2009

ISBN

978-8187663836

Publisher

National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore

Keywords

Image measurement, Security Studies

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