Target identification performance as a function of temporal and fixed pattern noise

Optical Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 443-447

  Driggers, Ronald G ^a   Vollmerhausen, Richard ^a   Krapels, Keith ^a  

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

Author keywords

Infrared systems; Noise; Performance modeling

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SENSORS; INFRARED DEVICES; PROBABILITY;

FIXED PATTERN NOISE;

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 0035270921     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1346583     Document Type: Article

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