Performance comparison of rectangular (four-point) and diagonal (two-point) dither in undersampled infrared focal plane array imagers

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 71-84

  Krapels, Keith ^a   Driggers, Ronald ^a   Vollmerhause, Richard ^a   Halford, Carl ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; IMAGE QUALITY; INFRARED DETECTORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

INFRARED FOCAL PLANE ARRAY IMAGERS;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 0037766569     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.000071     Document Type: Article

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