Mr. Daniel D. Desjardins Profile

Daniel D. Desjardins

Technical Writer/Editor

SPIE Involvement:

Author | Editor

Area of Expertise:

cockpit avionics , military display mkt

Profile Summary

Holds a B.S. in Chemistry from FSU (1977) and a B.S.E.E. from UNM (1984). Has attended SPIE since 1995; presented first paper on military displays in 1998, followed by additional papers each year in 1999, and 2001-2009, with two papers in 2010. Has served as conference chair in 2006, and 2009-2010. Military member assigned to AFRL Displays Branch at Wright-Patterson AFB OH, 1995 - 2006, and AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland AFB NM, 2007-Present, also AFNWC/EN (Kirtland AFB), 2009 - Present.

Publications (23)

Proceedings Article | 20 May 2019 Presentation + Paper

Psychophysical test results in the determination of an appropriate gamma for transmissive color displays

Daniel Desjardins, Patrick Gardner, James Byrd

Proceedings Volume 11019, 110190K (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2522195

KEYWORDS: Imaging systems, Magnesium, Eye, Visualization, Digital imaging, LCDs, Visual system, Medical imaging, OpenGL, Data communications

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Proceedings Article | 10 May 2018 Presentation + Paper

Determination of 255 just noticeable color gray level differences for improved color palette

Daniel Desjardins, Patrick Gardner, James Byrd

Proceedings Volume 10642, 1064202 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2304022

KEYWORDS: Visualization, Molecules, Proteins, Cones, Absorption, Diagnostics, LCDs, Eye, Photons, Light sources

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Proceedings Article | 21 May 2015 Paper

Just noticeable color difference: implications for display systems

Daniel Desjardins, Patrick Gardner

Proceedings Volume 9470, 94700I (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2179544

KEYWORDS: LCDs, Color difference, Displays, Military display technology, Optical filters, CIE 1931 color space, Eye, Lithium, RGB color model, Tolerancing

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Proceedings Article | 13 June 2014 Paper

Visual acuity and its implications for display systems: a review of previous, relevant research

Daniel Desjardins

Proceedings Volume 9086, 908609 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2049412

KEYWORDS: Cones, Visualization, Eye, Image resolution, Spatial frequencies, Spatial resolution, Retina, Optical resolution, Receptors, Displays

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SPIE Press Book | 21 January 2013

Military Displays: Technology and Applications

Daniel D. Desjardins

KEYWORDS: CRTs, Military display technology, LCDs, Computing systems, Light emitting diodes, Control systems, Navigation systems, LED displays, Heads up displays

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Military Displays: Technology and Applications

Proceedings Article | 23 May 2012 Paper

Military display performance parameters

Daniel Desjardins, Frederick Meyer

Proceedings Volume 8383, 838310 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.918270

KEYWORDS: CRTs, LCDs, Driver's vision enhancers, Fourier transforms, Dismounted soldiers, Head-mounted displays, Military display technology, Video, Heads up displays, Image resolution

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Proceedings Article | 5 May 2010 Paper

Cost of ownership for military cargo aircraft using a common versus disparate display configuration

Daniel Desjardins, Marvin Most

Proceedings Volume 7690, 769018 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.853416

KEYWORDS: LCDs, Amplifiers, Manufacturing, Heads up displays, Electronics, Computing systems, Glasses, Military display technology, LED displays, Defense and security

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Proceedings Article | 5 May 2010 Paper

Command and control displays for space vehicle operations

Daniel Desjardins, Paul Zetocha, Denise Aleva

Proceedings Volume 7690, 76901B (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.855463

KEYWORDS: Space operations, Satellites, Satellite communications, Commercial off the shelf technology, CRTs, Control systems, Sun, Lead, Projection systems, Telecommunications

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Proceedings Article | 9 May 2009 Paper

Military display market: update to fourth comprehensive edition

Daniel Desjardins, James Byrd, Darrel Hopper

Proceedings Volume 7327, 732705 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.819897

KEYWORDS: LCDs, Military display technology, CRTs, Heads up displays, Defense and security, Commercial off the shelf technology, Light emitting diodes, Flat panel displays, Defense technologies, Plasma

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The military display market is analyzed in terms of all fully electronic and many electro-mechanical displays used on combat platforms across all DOD Services. The military market for displays is defined by parameters such as active area, bezel-to-bezel measurement and technology. Other characteristics such as luminance, contrast ratio, gray levels, resolution, viewing angle, color, video capability, and night vision imaging system compatibility are noted. This study takes into account all displays that are either installed or funded for installation. In some cases, planned displays are also included. Display sizes having aggregate defense applications of 5,000 units or greater and having DOD applications across 10 or more platform fleets, are tabulated. The issue of size commonality is addressed where distribution of active area across platform fleets, individually, in groups of two through nine, and ten or more, is illustrated. Military displays are also analyzed by technology, where total quantities of such displays are broken out into CRT, LCD, AMLCD, EM, LED, Incandescent, Plasma and TFEL percentages. Custom, versus rugged commercial, versus commercial off-the-shelf designs are contrasted. High and low information content designs are identified. Displays for several high-profile military programs are discussed, to include both technical specifications and program history. This defense-wide study, an up-date to our paper delivered April 2006, documents 642 weapons system platforms comprising 1,194,199 displays in 1,217 sizes, of which 1,197 are direct-view and 20 are virtual-view. Defense display sizes range from 0.082 in..² to 10,625 in.² in 18 technologies, mostly flat panel display (FPD) technologies based on thin-film transistor active matrix liquid crystal displays (TFT AM LCD), with cathode ray tube (CRT) second and dropping rapidly. This paper provides an overview of the DOD display market, allowing government, academia and industry highlights of information provided in the "Military Display Market: Fifth Comprehensive Edition" technical report.

Proceedings Article | 9 April 2008 Paper

Displays for future intermediate UAV

Daniel Desjardins, James Metzler, David Blakesley, Courtney Rister, Abdul-Razak Nuhu

Proceedings Volume 6956, 695602 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.785425

KEYWORDS: Cameras, Sensors, Unmanned aerial vehicles, Infrared cameras, Zoom lenses, Video, Transceivers, Thermography, Prototyping, Infrared sensors

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Proceedings Article | 30 April 2007 Paper

Air vehicle displays in the operational environment

Daniel Desjardins, James Byrd

Proceedings Volume 6558, 655802 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.717687

KEYWORDS: Sun, Heads up displays, Radar, Video, Amplifiers, CRTs, Goggles, Fourier transforms, Optical filters, Image storage

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Proceedings Article | 5 May 2006 Paper

Military display market: fourth comprehensive edition

Daniel Desjardins, Darrel Hopper, Peter Marasco, James Byrd, Jon Neubauer

Proceedings Volume 6225, 622504 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.663675

KEYWORDS: LCDs, Military display technology, CRTs, Heads up displays, Defense and security, Liquid crystal on silicon, Light emitting diodes, Plasma, Commercial off the shelf technology, Weapons

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Proceedings Article | 25 May 2005 Paper

Military display market segment: avionics

Daniel Desjardins, Darrel Hopper

Proceedings Volume 5801, (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.597659

KEYWORDS: CRTs, Military display technology, Heads up displays, Image resolution, LCDs, Head-mounted displays, Cockpit displays, Video, Defense and security, Light emitting diodes

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Proceedings Article | 15 September 2004 Paper

Military display market segment: helicopters

Daniel Desjardins, Darrel Hopper

Proceedings Volume 5443, (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.561274

KEYWORDS: Military display technology, LCDs, CRTs, Video, Heads up displays, Fourier transforms, Commercial off the shelf technology, Image resolution, Defense and security, Head-mounted displays

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Proceedings Article | 10 September 2003 Paper

Military display market segment: wearable and portable

Daniel Desjardins, Darrel Hopper

Proceedings Volume 5080, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.500906

KEYWORDS: LCDs, Military display technology, Commercial off the shelf technology, CRTs, Head-mounted displays, Video, Manufacturing, Fourier transforms, Hand-held displays, Electronics

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Proceedings Article | 28 August 2002 Paper

Military display market: third comprehensive edition

Daniel Desjardins, Darrel Hopper

Proceedings Volume 4712, (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.480944

KEYWORDS: LCDs, CRTs, Defense and security, Military display technology, Control systems, Weapons, Head-mounted displays, Sun, Flat panel displays, Image resolution

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Proceedings Article | 7 September 2001 Paper

Military display market segment: aircraft cockpits

Daniel Desjardins, Darrel Hopper

Proceedings Volume 4362, (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.439136

KEYWORDS: CRTs, Cockpit displays, LCDs, Military display technology, Defense and security, LED displays, Fermium, Frequency modulation, Heads up displays, Light emitting diodes

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Proceedings Article | 28 August 2000 Paper

Military display market: second comprehensive edition

Darrel Hopper, Daniel Desjardins

Proceedings Volume 4022, (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.397757

KEYWORDS: CRTs, LCDs, Military display technology, Flat panel displays, Weapons, Defense and security, Cockpit displays, Control systems, Field emission displays, Manufacturing

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Proceedings Article | 16 August 1999 Paper

Updated defense display market assessment

Daniel Desjardins, Darrel Hopper

Proceedings Volume 3690, (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.357585

KEYWORDS: CRTs, Light emitting diodes, LCDs, Plasma, Laser phosphor displays, Military display technology, LED displays, Defense and security, Flat panel displays, Electroluminescence

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Proceedings Article | 14 September 1998 Paper

Defense display market assessment

Daniel Desjardins, Darrel Hopper

Proceedings Volume 3363, (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.321782

KEYWORDS: CRTs, LCDs, Military display technology, Flat panel displays, Defense and security, Fermium, Frequency modulation, Weapons, Electroluminescence, Image resolution

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Proceedings Article | 1 July 1997 Paper

Military market for flat panel displays

Daniel Desjardins, Darrel Hopper

Proceedings Volume 3057, (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.277015

KEYWORDS: CRTs, Flat panel displays, LCDs, Defense and security, Military display technology, Fermium, Frequency modulation, Light emitting diodes, Display technology, Defense technologies

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Proceedings Article | 30 May 1996 Paper

Applications of AMLCDs in U.S. military cockpits

Robert Michaels, Daniel Desjardins, Reginald Daniels, Darrel Hopper

Proceedings Volume 2734, (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.241013

KEYWORDS: Military display technology, LCDs, Standards development, Flat panel displays, Computing systems, Head-mounted displays, CRTs, Cockpit displays, Weapons, Human-machine interfaces

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Proceedings Article | 5 June 1995 Paper

Requirements for AMLCDs in U.S. military applications

Darrel Hopper, Daniel Desjardins

Proceedings Volume 2462, (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.210949

KEYWORDS: CRTs, Flat panel displays, Manufacturing, Military display technology, Defense technologies, LCDs, Defense and security, Display technology, Weapons, Amorphous silicon

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Flat panel displays are fast becoming a significant source of more defense for less money. Military instruments have begun to use color active matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCDs). This is the beginning of a significant transition from electromechanical, CRT. dichroic LCD, and electroluminescent display designs to the AMLCD designs. We have the opportunity with this new technology to establish common products capable of meeting user requirements for sunlight-readable, color and grayscale capable, high-sharpness high-pixel count, flat panel displays for military applications. The Wright Laboratory is leading the development of recommended best practice, draft guidance standard, and performance specifications for this new generation, the flat panel cockpit display generation, of display modules based on requirements for U.S. military aircraft and ground combat human system interfaces. These requirements are similar in many regards to those in both the civil aviation and automotive industries; accordingly, commonality with these civil applications is incorporated where possible, against the requirements for military combat applications. The performance requirement may be achieved by two approaches: militarization of displays made to low requirements of a large volume civil products manufacturer like Sharp or integration of displays made to high requirements by a niche market commercial vendor, like Optical Imaging Systems, Litton Systems Limited, ImageQuest Inc., and Planar Advanced Inc. teamed with Xerox PARC and Standish Industries. [Note that the niche market companies listed are commercial off-the shelf vendors, albeit for high requirement low volume customers.] Given that the performance specifications can be met for a particular military product by either approach, the choice is based on life cycle cost and a thin analysis based on initial costs alone is not acceptable as it ignores the fact that military product life cycles and procurements are 20-60 years compared to 1.5 years for civil products. Thus far there is no convincing evidence that the large volume commercial product approach for combat systems will meet the combat performance specification or be cheaper from a life cycle cost perspective. National and economic security requirements require some military/avionic-grade AMLCD production domestically (i.e. in the U.S. and/or Canada). Examples of AMLCD demand and performance requirements in U.S. military systems are provided.

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Proceedings Volume Editor (8)

SPIE Conference Volume | 15 June 2015

Display Technologies and Applications for Defense, Security, and Avionics IX; and Head- and Helmet-Mounted Displays XX

SPIE Conference Volume | 2 July 2014

Display Technologies and Applications for Defense, Security, and Avionics VIII; and Head- and Helmet-Mounted Displays XIX

SPIE Conference Volume | 4 June 2013

Display Technologies and Applications for Defense, Security, and Avionics VII

SPIE Conference Volume | 10 May 2012

Head- and Helmet-Mounted Displays XVII; and Display Technologies and Applications for Defense, Security, and Avionics VI

SPIE Conference Volume | 10 May 2011

Display Technologies and Applications for Defense, Security, and Avionics V; and Enhanced and Synthetic Vision 2011

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Conference Committee Involvement (19)

Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality (XR) Technology for Multi-Domain Operations III

4 April 2022 | Orlando, Florida, United States

Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality (XR) Technology for Multi-Domain Operations II

12 April 2021 | Online Only, Florida, United States

Situation Awareness in Degraded Environments 2020

27 April 2020 | Online Only, California, United States

Situation Awareness in Degraded Environments 2019

16 April 2019 | Baltimore, MD, United States

Situation Awareness in Degraded Environments 2018

17 April 2018 | Orlando, FL, United States

Degraded Environments: Sensing, Processing, and Display 2017

11 April 2017 | Anaheim, CA, United States

Degraded Visual Environments (DVE): Enhanced, Synthetic, and External Vision Solutions (ESXVS) 2016

19 April 2016 | Baltimore, MD, United States

Display Technologies and Applications for Defense, Security, and Avionics IX

22 April 2015 | Baltimore, MD, United States

Display Technologies and Applications for Defense, Security, and Avionics VIII

8 May 2014 | Baltimore, MD, United States

Display Technologies and Applications for Defense, Security, and Avionics VII

2 May 2013 | Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Display Technologies and Applications for Defense, Security, and Avionics VI

26 April 2012 | Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Unattended Ground, Sea, and Air Sensor Technologies and Applications XIV

25 April 2012 | Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Unattended Ground, Sea, and Air Sensor Technologies and Applications XIII

28 April 2011 | Orlando, Florida, United States

Display Technologies and Applications for Defense, Security, and Avionics V

25 April 2011 | Orlando, Florida, United States

Display Technologies and Applications for Defense, Security, and Avionics IV

6 April 2010 | Orlando, Florida, United States

Unattended Ground, Sea, and Air Sensor Technologies and Applications XII

5 April 2010 | Orlando, Florida, United States

Display Technologies and Applications for Defense, Security, and Avionics III

17 April 2009 | Orlando, Florida, United States

Display Technologies & Applications for Defense, Security, and Avionics II

20 March 2008 | Orlando, Florida, United States

Defense, Security, and Cockpit Displays III

19 April 2006 | Orlando (Kissimmee), Florida, United States

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