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F-15D Eagle Spotted with Unusual Infrared Measurement Pod

The pod appears to be previously unseen but closely resembles the Airborne Turret Infrared Measurement System III (ATIMS III), which is used to perform airborne IR signature measurements. A U.S. Air ...
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U.S. Air Force Keeps Improving Survivability With Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures (LAIRCM)

Northrop Grumman received another order for the installation of new AAQ-24(V) LAIRCM systems, as well the upgrade of existing ones. The U.S. Air Force is continuing to improve the self-protection ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

Longwave Thermal Infrared Atmospheric Correction Using In Situ Scene Elements: The Multiple Altitude Technique Revisited For Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS)

This work was selected as the Keynote Paper at the 2025 SPIE DCS Symposium's conference on Autonomous Air and Ground Sensing Systems for Agricultural Optimization and Phenotyping X. Quantitative ...