Tracking of Artillery Shell using Optical Flow

The effectiveness of the Artillery shell is measured by its precision of hitting the target. During hitting the target, the intended firing path can be affected by the inherited source as well as external factors like wind, temperature changes, etc. Thus tracking such a path becomes crucial. In this paper, we address the problem of artillery shell tracking with optical flow and adopted the solution for it with sparse and dense optical flow. The outcome of this work can be used in test firing to determine the accuracy of the artillery target. Experimental findings show that the proposed methodology is more effective than the current military artillery unguided shell’s impact point locating, even if the shell ended up being an unexplored or blind shell.