Maintaining uniformity of IR focal plane arrays by updating offset correction coefficients

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4820, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 809-820

  Gurevich, E ^a   Fein, A ^b  

^a Image Processing Group   (Israel)

^b Department of Electro Optics   (Israel)

Author keywords

Detector nonlinearity; FPA; Infrared detectors; Non uniformity correction; Two point correction

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

TWO-POINT CORRECTION (TPC);

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 0037648954     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.453552     Document Type: Conference Paper

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