The present invention provides for simple and streamlined boresight
correlation of FLIR-to-missile video. Boresight correlation is performed
with un-NUCed missile video, which allows boresight correlation and NUC
to be performed simultaneously thereby reducing the time required to
acquire a target and fire the missile. The current approach uses the
motion of the missile seeker for NUCing to produce spatial gradient
filtering in the missile image by differencing images as the seeker
moves. This compensates DC non-uniformities in the image. A FLIR image is
processed with a matching displace and subtract spatial filter
constructed based on the tracked scene motion. The FLIR image is
resampled to match the missile image resolution, and the two images are
preprocessed and correlated using conventional methods. Improved NUC is
provided by cross-referencing multiple measurements of each area of the
scene as viewed by different pixels in the imager. This approach is based
on the simple yet novel premise that every pixel in the array that looks
at the same thing should see the same thing. As a result, the NUC terms
adapt to non-uniformities in the imager and not the scene.