Identifying Vehicles Using Vibration Signatures

M. Stevens and M. Snorrason (Charles River Analytics), and D. Petrovich (Air Force Research Lab)

Proceedings of ICPR, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada (August, 2002)

Laser Vibrometry is an exciting new sensor technology that promises to improve automatic target recognition (ATR) performance. Sensors such as Micro-Laser Interferometer Doppler (MLID) measure minute vibrations on the surface of an object from a large standoff distance. In this paper, we demonstrate a baseline ATR algorithm designed for vibrometry data that can reliably recognize military vehicles when trained and tested on similar operating conditions.

Example of vibrometry signature

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