Natural colour mapping for multiband nightvision imagery

Information Fusion

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 155-166

  Toet, Alexander ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

False colour; Image fusion; Infrared; Intensified imagery; Pyramid

Indexed keywords

INFRARED IMAGING; LUMINESCENCE; MAPPING;

IMAGE FUSION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0041828745     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1566-2535(03)00038-1     Document Type: Article

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