Nonuniformity compensation for IR focal plane array sensors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3061, Issue , 1997, Pages 915-926

  Venkateswarlu, Ronda ^a   Er, Meng H ^a   Gan, Yu H ^b   Fong, Yew C ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Focal plane arrays; IR; IRFPA; NUC; Offset; Responsivity

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; INFRARED RADIATION; PAPER; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ARTIFACTS; IR; IRFPA; NUC; OFFSET; RESPONSIVITY;

FOCUSING;

EID: 0002949876     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.280310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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