Patent ID: 8575527

Claim:
A vehicle having electro-optic (EO) imaging, comprising: a vehicle body having an outer surface including a fixed front surface, a fixed back surface, a fixed near side surface, or a fixed far side surface said fixed front surface, fixed back surface, fixed near side surface, or fixed far side surface including at least one porthole, of a plurality of portholes arrayed about a location where a long axis of the vehicle body is located; a propulsion source within said vehicle body for moving said vehicle, and a fixed EO imaging system having a field-of-regard (FOR) comprising a plurality of fixed EO imaging sub-systems arrayed within said vehicle body, wherein said plurality of fixed EO imaging sub-systems each have a different field-of-view (FOV) for providing a portion of said FOR and comprise: a camera affixed within said vehicle body, and an optical window secured over ones of said plurality of portholes for transmitting electromagnetic radiation received from one of said plurality of portions of said FOR to said camera, wherein said camera generates image data representing one of said portions of said FOR therefrom, and a processor coupled to receive said image data from said plurality of fixed EO imaging sub-systems for combining said image data to provide composite image data spanning said FOR.