TOD, NVTherm and TRM3 model calculations: A comparison

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4719, Issue , 2002, Pages 51-62

  Bijl, Piet ^a   Hogervorst, Maarten A ^a   Valeton, J Mathieu ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Electro optical system performance; MRTD; MTDP; MTF squeeze model; NVTherm; Target acquisition; TOD; TRM3

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SCANNING;

FOCAL PLANE ARRAY; MINIMUM RESOLVABLE TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE; NIGHT VISION; TARGET ACQUISITION;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 0036911561     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.477475     Document Type: Conference Paper

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