Abstract: The invention is an electrically insulated steel railway cross tie for use with railway tracks using track circuit systems. The electrically insulated steel cross tie prevents the cross tie for shorting the track circuit systems. A method of manufacturing the electrically insulated steel cross tie is to transversely cut an uninsulated steel cross tie into separate elongated members. The elongated members are then re-joined end to end with an insulator member interposed between the elongated members. The insulator member prevents electrical current from being conducted from one elongated member to another elongated member. In the preferred embodiment end plates are welded to the cut ends of the elongated members and bolts are used to releasably join the elongated members together. The bolts are electrically insulated to prevent the bolts from conducting electrical current between the elongated members.

Abstract: A processor and method for discriminating against interference during target acquisition and reacquisition processing of densely cluttered images. The processor and method that adaptively estimates the feature probability density function of the interference from the image data. The estimated interference probability density function, along with target feature estimates are input to a Bayesian classifier that discriminates the interference from the target.

Abstract: A sensor system includes a sensor (20) having an array (22) of detector elements (24), a movable sensor positioner (32) in which the sensor (20) is mounted, a signal processor (30) that progressively corrects the intensities of the pixels of a sensor output array for detector element nonuniformity, an electronic scene position corrector (40), and a motion controller (36) that provides a movement command (34) to the sensor positioner (32), and transmits the substance of the movement command to the scene position corrector (40). An image array signal is furnished from the sensor (20) to the signal processor (30), while the sensor positioner (32) is controllably moved under command of the motion controller (36). A nonuniformity-compensated output signal (38) of the signal processor (30) is provided to the scene position corrector (40), wherein the position of the image is corrected for the motion of the sensor positioner (32).