On the development of filter management module for grayscale optical correlator

An Optical Processing for the Mining and Identification of Targets (OPMIT) system is being proposed to significantly reduce broad area search workload for NIMA imagery analysts. Central to the system is a Grayscale Optical Correlator (GOC), developed by JPL in recent years. In this paper we discuss some preliminary development of an important system component - the filter management module - that is critical for the success of GOC operation. The emphasis is on the streamlining the OT-MACH filter synthesis/testing procedure for effective and efficient filter design while maintaining filter performance.