Scene-based nonuniformity correction for focal plane arrays by the method of the inverse covariance form

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 29, 2003, Pages 5872-5881

  Torres, Sergio N ^a   Pezoa, Jorge E ^a   Hayat, Majeed M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARRAYS; INFRARED IMAGING; KALMAN FILTERING; OPTICAL FILTERS;

FOCAL-PLANE ARRAYS (FPA);

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 0142030152     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.005872     Document Type: Article

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