Messerschmitt-boelkow-blohm Gmbh

Reinhard Dirscherl

Ernst-August Seiffarth

Ernst Lill

Georg Voetterl

A recognition system for alarming and early warning against starting and approaching flying objects with an active engine evaluates the 'plume signature' of such an engine. Image signal generating electro-optical sensors, which operate in a preselected spectral range, are combined with an image processing and evaluating arrangement for producing output signals that can initiate countermeasures semi-automatically or automatically after a threat analysis has established that a threat exists.

Method and apparatus for recognizing the start and motion of objects

A method and apparatus for steering a moving object is based on an electro-optical sensor unit which selectively detects the UV-radiation generated by a flying body or projectile. The signals resulting therefrom are processed and converted by a computer into steering and control signals for the object to be steered, whereby the locating probability and the interference reliability are improved.

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Taufkirchen, Germany

Reinhard Dirscherl