Minimum Resolvable Temperature Difference Measurements on Undersampled Imagers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5076, Issue , 2003, Pages 179-189

  Driggers, Ronald G ^a   Van Hodgkin, ^b   Vollmerhausen, Rich ^b   O'Shea, Patrick ^b  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Imaging System Performance; Measurements; Minimum Resolvable Temperature

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; FREQUENCIES; INFRARED IMAGING;

THERMAL IMAGERS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0242551051     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.487065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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