Basic Optics for RTO-Videopanorama Design

In this technical appendix we will provide some basic optics for the design of a digital video panorama reconstruction of the out-of-windows view with a visual resolution comparable to the human eye, i.e. an angular resolution of the order of E  1 arcmin = 1/60° = 0.3 mrad, corresponding to 30 cm object size at 1 km distance. Besides satisfying resolution and contrast requirements the system de-sign, including data processing and transmission infrastructure should be realiza-ble under acceptable cost which has to be considerably below that one of a physi-cal control tower building of several M€ for a medium size airport. Typically each single camera of the panorama system has its own display at the operator working position, plus hard- and software for high performance image processing at the transmitter and receiver side of the high bandwidth data transmission infra-structure.