Impact of speckle on laser range-gated shortwave infrared imaging system target identification performance

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4719, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-14

  Driggers, Ronald G ^a   Vollmerhausen, Rich ^a   Devitt, Nicole ^a   Halford, Carl ^b   Barnard, Kenneth ^c  

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

^b University of Memphis   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electro optics performance modeling; Laser range gated imaging

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LASER APPLICATIONS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHTING; OPTICAL SENSORS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPECKLE;

ELECTROOPTICS PERFORMANCE MODELING; LASER RANGE GATED IMAGING; TARGET IDENTIFICATION;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 0036916018     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.477438     Document Type: Conference Paper

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