Dynamic minimum resolvable temperature testing for staring array imagers

Optical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 845-851

  Webb, Curtis M ^a,c,d   Halford, Carl E ^b  

^a NIGHT VISION AND ELECTRONIC SENSORS DIRECTORATE   (United States)

^b University of Memphis   (United States)

^c Electronic Sensors Directorate   (United States)

^d NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; INFRARED IMAGING; INSTRUMENT TESTING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SCANNING;

DYNAMIC MINIMUM RESOLVABLE TEMPERATURE (DMRT); STARING ARRAY IMAGERS;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 0032631471     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602281     Document Type: Article

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