Variable-retardance, Fourier-transform imaging spectropolarimeters for visible spectrum remote sensing

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1450-1458

  Tyo, J Scott ^a,b   Turner, Theodore S ^a,c  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Naval Postgraduate School   (United States)

^c BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING;

FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROPOLARIMETERS;

SPECTROPHOTOMETERS;

EID: 0000647271     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.001450     Document Type: Article

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