for your stated article on finding meteors with military grade thermal cameras, can you share a link or something? I was unable to find anything with my google searches on the topic or names you listed.
Unfortunately as far as I know there is no public domain version of the article although it might turn up on Scribd or something.
A summary of the article is as follows.
Brian Oughton's job involved working with sensitive infrared detectors (I think for Selex). During some camera testing some colleagues captured by chance what they thought might have been a daylight meteor. So they decided to make a determined effort to see meteors in daylight during the 2007 Perseids.
As their cameras had a relatively narrow field of view they used ham radio equipment to search for radio 'pings' that would not only give them a direction to point to but also confirm the presence of meteors.
Between 6 and 8am on 13 August 2007 the group had captured numerous meteor trails on video using the various IR cameras and later analysis showed that whilst most were Perseids, some may have been random meteors from other directions. There was good correlation between the radio records and IR video, giving a high degree of confidence that they had indeed been seeing meteors on the IR cameras.
The article included a photo of the team standing in front of some sort of light military vehicle that appeared to have a (possibly thermal) camera on a mast, and a member of the team holding a thermal camera (see image crop above). There were also four stills taken from the video recording of a meteor crossing the field of view: frankly, it was just a small indeterminate white blob with no distinguishing features.
The conclusion was the "Equipment Used" section, which I reproduced in full above, and that is the only section that really contains any technical information.
Hope this helps