A breakthrough technology that provides superior identification and recognition capabilities compared to the best thermal imager. I​n high traffic areas like commercial shipping channels, it is particularly important to properly distinguish between civilians rightfully exercising their professional or leisure activities and those attempting to commit illegal trades such as drug trafficking, illegal alien smuggling, terrorism and piracy. 

With the increasing acts of piracy and terrorism at sea, it is now essential to identify a ship and corroborate that the declared identity is the same as what can be read from the hull. To gather as much of this information as possible, a night surveillance system must be able to provide high resolution, realtime video rate images providing the reflective properties of paint, materials and ideally, see through glass for a complete observation.

The ARGC cameras have two sensors that can be used with the high magnification telescope: a color camera and an Intensified Charged-Couple Device (ICCD) camera, gated to the laser pulse. The telescope design is achromatic and therefore the camera can provide the same high magnification at day or night. Moreover, a wide-field-of-view color camera is also available for day observation. A thermal camera can be installed on the top of the ARGC-2400 or inside the enclosure of the ARGC-750 based on required performance.