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New imaging technology can sense tanks, as well as cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, October 1st, 2002

What does remote sensing for camouflaged enemy ground vehicles have to do with breast cancer diagnosis' By next year, perhaps plenty. Both find threats hidden in innocent clutter.

The Office of Naval Research's (ONR) newly developed 200 channel hyperspectral remote sensing capability - modeled on the human visual/brain "unsupervised" learning system that can distinguish between what's important and what's not - is now being tested both on the LANDSAT satellite and the F-18 fighter jet as a passive electro-optical, infrared surveillance system. A range of sensors surveys the scene in question, and incoming data are compared and contrasted using algorithms based on...

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