APRIL 10--Boulder Imaging Inc. (Louisville, CO; www.boulderimaging.com), an image-processing and machine-vision software company, is providing a digital video recording system to Lockheed Martin (Bethesda, MD; www.missilesandfirecontrol.comm) to test the Army's Line-of-Sight Antitank Weapon System (LOSAT) missile. The camera system, stationed on the top of a Hummer military vehicle, will capture 250 Mbytes/s of visual information as a LOSAT missile is launched during testing.
The digital recording system features Boulder Imaging's proprietary AcquireNow software that captures and records high-speed data in real time. For the LOSAT missile launch, this system will record the actual video of the missile launch itself. This information has never been captured and recorded together and will be used for post-launch analysis.
The transformational LOSAT system consists of Kinetic Energy Missiles (KEM) and a second-generation FLIR/video acquisition sensor mounted on an air-mobile, heavy HMMWV (Hummer) chassis. The KEM travels at a speed of 5000 ft/s and slams into armored vehicles, destroying them purely by kinetic energy.
