Patent ID: 7007888

Claim:
A targeting platform comprising: a target tracking system including: a database for storing starfield information; an optical beam source configured to illuminate one or more optical beam pulses; a first camera system configured to track an object and record the tracked object; a second camera system configured to stabilize a tracking image received by a portion of the first camera system and record the stabilized image that includes the one or more optical beam pulses; and a processor coupled to the database, the optical beam source, and the first and second camera systems, the processor including: a first component configured to instruct the first camera system to track the object based on recordation of the tracked object; a second component configured to instruct the second camera system to stabilize the tracking image based on the instructions sent to the first camera system; and a third component configured to determine inertial reference information of the tracked object based on the stabilized image and starfield information associated with the stabilized image.