Allied militaries are modernizing their lightly armored transport and combat vehicles with the addition of advanced digital vision sensors, a development that promises to make troops safer and more effective by enhancing their local situational awareness. These state-of-the-art vision sensors operate at wavelengths ranging from the ultraviolet to the visible, and into the long-wave infrared. They make it possible for the crews to see more detail at far greater distances than has been typical for ground vehicles. The most advanced digital sensors can positively identify an object or person many miles away, even at night, which is multiple times the capability of previous generations of sensors. Unlike the analog video used predominately inside today's vehicles, the all-digital streams generated by these sensors can be processed inside the vehicles in their native formats, without conversion, improving the precision of tasks such as targeting.
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