The development of a new thermal imaging camera, for long range surveillance applications, is described together with the enabling technology. Previous publications have described the development of large arrays of 12µm pixels using Metal Organic Vapour Phase Epitaxy (MOVPE) grown Mercury Cadmium Telluride (MCT) for wide area surveillance applications. This technology has been leveraged to produce the low cost 1280x720 pixel Medium Wave IR focal plane array at the core of the new camera. Also described is the newly developed, high performance, x12 continuous zoom lens which, together with the detector, achieves an Instantaneous Field of View (IFOV) of 12.5µrad/pixel enabling long detection, recognition and identification ranges. Novel image processing features, including the turbulence mitigation algorithms deployed in the camera processing electronics, are also addressed. Resultant imagery and performance will be presented.

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A computerized system for acquisition of data from a transcutaneous PO2 (PtcO2) monitor is presented. A North Star Computer, Inc., "Horizon" microcomputer was used in this system. The PtcO2 monitor was a Radiometer TCM-1 equipped with an external printer interface. The system had a custom interface module to accept binary-coded decimal data from the PtcO2 monitor. In addition, a 16-channel, 12-bit A/D module, a real-time clock module with interrupt capability, and a high-resolution graphics module were incorporated.

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