The IMAGO Splash Detection system is designed to measure the impact point of weapons fired at a naval or land-based test site. IMAGO’s splash detection system uses a staring array solution and can support up to 8 stations.
The Splash Detection System provides the following information:
- Splash location in different coordinate systems (NEU/WGS84)
- Range and drift off line of fire
- Miss distance
- Time resolution to within +/-50 msec (1 frame time)
- Summary report of days shots
- 3D map display showing SDS locations, target locations and splash locations
The Splash detection includes offers the following functionality:
- Ability to turn and point the cameras to a location where the impact is expected.
- Ability to control image brightness automatically or manually.
- Ability upon trigger of recording ~20 seconds of data.
- Ability to scroll through the image sequence to identify the splash.
- Save splash location to 0.0001 deg resolution. (manual or automatic mode)
- Save location (Az and El) of other points such as survey points & reference floats can also be recorded and saved to 0.0001 deg resolution via manual designation.
- Ability to reprocess the event by reloading the data.
- It accepts a trigger from the gun and expected flight time
- Multiple splash detection stations can communicate with each other to verify that the same event is detected based on IRIG time. (Optional).
- Cue mode of operation allows the system to follow a moving target based on an input cue, while recording video.
Automatic Splash Detection (Optional)
IMAGO's splash detection image-processing algorithm has been optimized for automatic detection and extraction of large splashes caused by munitions entering the water. Specifically:
- The algorithm is designed to exclude other moving objects such as birds or boats
- The algorithm is designed to handle white caps and motion of waves
- The algorithm is designed to handle some sunlight reflection off the water. However large amounts of solar reflection will reduce the effectiveness of the automatic detection algorithm.
- The camera image brightness is automatically adjusted to help keep the image clear.
- The algorithm extracts the position where the munitions entered the water and the time.
- The algorithm deals with skewed splash (not straight), and a splash of different shapes.
- The algorithm can detect if the munitions detonated and exploded above the water.