Fifty-percent probability of identification (N50) comparison for targets in the visible and infrared spectral bands

Optical Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 3047-3052

  O'Connor, John D ^a   Driggers, Ronald G ^a   Vollmerhausen, Richard H ^a   Devitt, Nicole ^a   Olson, Jeff ^a  

^a U S ARMY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; VISUALIZATION;

GAUSSIAN BLUR; PROBABILITY CURVE; PROBABILITY OF IDENTIFICATION;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 0344515606     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1607331     Document Type: Article

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