Radiative transfer modeling and analysis of spatially variant and coherent illumination for undersea object detection

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 570-582

  Bailey, Bernard C ^a   Blatt, Joel H ^b   Caimi, Frank M ^c  

^a KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SkyCross Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Interferometric method of underwater lighting; Moir profilometry in underwater target detection; Spatially modulated illumination; Structured illumination

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHTING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PROFILOMETRY;

COHERENT ILLUMINATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELING; SPATIALLY MODULATED ILLUMINATION; STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION; UNDERSEA OBJECT DETECTION; UNDERWATER LIGHTING;

UNDERWATER IMAGING;

EID: 0346640453     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2003.819152     Document Type: Article

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