Relation between thermal infrared and visible/near infrared images of ground terrain

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 862-873

  Agassi, Eyal ^a,b,c   Ben Yosef, Nissim ^a,d,e,f  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Advance Systems Division   (Israel)

^c Remote Sensing Syst Oper EL OP E   (Israel)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e IEEE

^f Israel Physical Society   (Israel)

Author keywords

Correlation coefficient; Joint density function; Joint histograms; Reflective images; Scene topography; Thermal infrared images

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038401657     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601141     Document Type: Article

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