Calculate Thermal Infrared Intensity of the Hull’s Military Ship

Ramin Ebrahimi Laleh, Nima Ghasemloo

National Cartographic Center of Iran, Tehran, Iran.
Navigation Department, ShenavariJvad-Alaaemeh College NEDSA, Imam Hossin University, Tehran, Iran.

DOI: 10.4236/jgis.2014.64029                

Abstract

Stealth technology emphasizes on the reduction in reflection and radiation energies, the surface of target's body in the range of visual, radar, thermal and near IR and so on. Providing solutions to reduce thermal IR intensity radiation is one of the appropriate actions in passive defense for identifying power and targeting enemy. Therefore, questions are brought up: How much is the thermal IR intensity radiation of surface of the hall’s vessel? How much is the effect of each parameter? This thesis tries to provide the software to answer these questions. The provided software measures thermal IR intensity radiation of the surface of the hall’s vessel by the material substance, the temperature of the surface of the hall’s vessel, the situation and characteristic of the thermal detector, noticing the coefficient of environment atmospheric transmittal. This software by changing the effective parameters on thermal IR radiation calculates the thermal radiation on thermal detector in different situations.

Keywords

Intensity Radiation, Thermal Infrared, Thermal Detector, Geometry’s Military Ship Neural

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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