Patent ID: 8587664

Claim:
A target identification and location system comprising: at least three different types of infrared imaging sensors comprising a long wave infrared imaging sensor, a mid-wave infrared imaging sensor, and a short wave infrared imaging sensor, each of the at least three different types of infrared imaging sensors configured to acquire image data for different captured bands from the same frame of at least one frame of a swath; a positioning system; and an image data processing system that performs a band to band registration which aligns the image data for each of the different captured bands for each frame of the acquired frames of the swath into one composite frame, performs a frame to frame registration of the composite frames producing a full swath mosaic, identifies one or more fire targets based on one or more of the at least three different types of infrared image data in the aligned one composite frame and provides a location of the one or more fire targets based on positioning data from the positioning system.