Atmospheric turbulence modulation transfer function for infrared target acquisition modeling

Optical Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1906-1913

  Krapels, Keith ^a   Driggers, Ronald G ^a   Vollmerhausen, Richard H ^a   Kopeika, Norman S ^b   Halford, Carl E ^c  

^a U S ARMY   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric MTF; Target acquisition; Turbulence blur; Turbulence MTF

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED IMAGING; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

TARGET ACQUISITION (TA) SYSTEMS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035454167     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1390299     Document Type: Article

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