Accession No.: 2005-48 PROCESSING RECORD SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY ARCHIVES __________________________________________________________ Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Visibility Laboratory SIO Visibility Laboratory Reports, 1952-1987 PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 3 mss ARRANGEMENT: Chronological DESCRIPTION: Technical reports produced by SIO Visibility Laboratory personnel Seibert Q. Duntley, John E. Tyler, Rudolf Preisendorfer, Frances Culver, William Culver, William Whitney, John H. Taylor, etc. Many reports in this collection are not on the Office of Naval Research produced DVD of digitized SIO Visibility Laboratory Reports.

SIO Visibility Laboratory Reports, 1952-1987 Accession No.: 2005-48 BOX REPORT 1

Visibility Laboratory Technical Reports 1952-1987. DVD of Visibility Laboratory Report PDFs, but not all reports were digitized. Produced by Office of Naval Research, Ocean Battlespace Sensing S&T Dept. 6 copies Visibility of Submerged Objects. Final Report. 31 August 1952 The Limiting Capabilities of Unaided Human Vision in Aerial Reconnaissance. January 1953 Water Clarity Nomographs. 15 July 1953 A New Method for the Determination of the Volume Scattering Fundtion in Environmental Optics. March 1956 Calculation of the Path Function: Theory and Numerical Example. March 1956 Contrast Reduction by Time-Varying Refraction. March 1956 Description of a New Wave-Slope Meter. March 1956 Aerial Measurements of Atmospheric Clarity and Sky Luminance Near Alamogordo, New Mexico. 10 January 1958 Nomographs for Calculating Visibility by Swimmers. I. Natural Light. 10 May 1958 A Sea Surface Simulator. I. Theoretical Analysis: Simulation of Reflectance Properties of the Sea Surface by Arrays of Ergodic Cups. 20 June 1958 A Variable-Range Simulator. 21 June 1958 A Field Test of Submarine Periscope Detection by Aircraft. 23 June 1958 Atmospheric Limitations on Missile Photography. 30 June 1958 Optimum Fixation Period for Visual Search. March 1959 The Underwater Radiance Distribution Problem. March 1959 On the Structure of the Light Field at Shallow Depths in Deep Homogeneous Hydrosols. March 1959

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Design of an Underwater Radiance Photometer. March 1959 Examples of Water Clarity Data. May 1959 Notes on Course Deception Principles. September 1959 General Analytical Representations of the Observable Reflectance Function. November 1959 An Analysis of the Relationship Between Optical Aberration and Visual Contrast Threshold. December 1959 [Abberation sic] Improved Nomographs for Calculating Visibility by Swimmers (Natural Light). February 1960 An Instrument for the Measurement of the Volume Absorption Coefficient of Horizontal Stratified Water. February 1960 Flight Tests of an Airborne Light-Scattering Refractometer. June 1960 Examples of Water Clarity Data. II. June 1960 Derivation of the Contrast Reduction Equation. June 1960 Daytime Visibility of Stars by the High Altitude Observer. Part I. The Case of Unaided Vision. June 1960 Daytime Visibility of Stars by the High Altitude Observer. Part II. Optical Enhancement by Filters, Polarizers and Magnifiers. June 1960

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Analytic Visual Search Calculations. September 1960 The Visibility of Submerged Objects (Chapters 1 through 4). August 1952. Reissued October 1960 Measurements of the Transmission of Light from an Underwater Point Source. October 1960 A New Logarithmic Photometer. December 1960 An Experimental Evaluation of the Fluctuation Limen as an Indicator of Visual Performance. Interim Report I. March 1961 A New Logarithmic Photometer – Test Results. March 1961

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Evaluation of an Airborne Light-Scattering Refractometer. Final Report. June 1961 A Linear Analytic Model of the Visual System. June 1961 Studies of Mathematical Models of Visual Performance Capability. January 1963 The Effect of Haze on the Visual Identification of Naval Vessels (U)*. August 1963 Reproduction of a Slide Presentation. Satellite Detection of Surface Vessels. September 1963 Measurements of Atmospheric Boil. September 1963 Underwater Communication by Scattered Light. September 1963 Visibility. May 1964 Ground-based Measurements of Earth-to-Space Beam Transmittance, Path Radiance, and Contrast Transmittance. December 1964 Reproduction of a Slide Presentation. Image Restoration. February 1965 Visual Acuity and Astronaut Visibility. February 1966 The Use of Meteorological Satellite Photographs for the Measurement of Sea State. June 1966 Project Shed Light, Aircraft Instrumentation. Interim Progress Report No. 1. December 1967 Limitations of Simple Coherent Optical Systems. May 1969 Directional Reflectance of Atmospheric Paths of Sight. May 1969 Project Shed Light, Contrast Transmission Data. Interim Report No. 3. October 1969 Prediction of Visual Recognition Range. NATO Seminar on Detection, Recognition and Identification of Line-of-Sight Targets. 1970 Image Processing Techniques for Unknown Optical Transfer Functions. January 1970 SIO Visibility Laboratory, Quarterly Report, April 1970. ARPA Contract… SIO Visibility Laboratory, Quarterly Report, July 1970. ARPA Contract…

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SIO Visibility Laboratory, Final Report, November 1970. ARPA Contract… SIO Visibility Laboratory, Quarterly Report, April 1971. ARPA Contract…

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Test and Calibration Procedures for Underwater Illuminometers. 30 June 1971 SIO Visibility Laboratory, Quarterly Report, September 1971. ARPA Contract… Digital Image Processing. March 1972 SIO Visibility Laboratory, Final Report, March 1972. ARPA Contract… SIO Visibility Laboratory, Quarterly Report, May 1972. ARPA Contract… Optical Properties of Selected Waters. Part 2, Final Report. October 1972 Test and Calibration Procedures for Underwater Transmissometers. 20 June 1973 Study to Acquire and Analyze Data of the Visual Limitations in Assessing Air Collision Threats. August 1973 Computer Simulations and Processing of Degraded Images. 30 November 1973 Synthetic Aperture Sonar Characteristics. Interim Report. April 1974 SIO Visibility Laboratory, Final Report, May 1974. ARPA Contract… Availability and Credibility of Maritime Visibility Observations. July 1974 Synthetic Aperture Sonar Characteristics. Final Report. April 1975 Submerged Reflectance. August 1976 Computer Model of Target Detection Performance. Phase One. 1 November 1977 OPAQUE Aerosol Counter Intercomparison 25 April 1977 – 4 Mary 1977. 9 January 1978 Computer Model of Target Detection Performance. Final Report. April 1979 Nighttime K Measurements. Data Report. August 1981 Operation and Maintenance Manual, Five Channel Radiometer, Research Support Instruments, In. Model 30-187. January 1982

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Notes on a Uniform Field Projector. n.d.