Atmospheric modulation transfer function in the infrared

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 471-482

  Buskila, Kobi ^a   Towito, Shay ^a   Shmuel, Elad ^a   Levi, Ran ^a   Kopeika, Natan ^a   Krapels, Keith ^b   Driggers, Ronald G ^b   Vollmerhausen, Richard H ^b   Halford, Carl E ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; FOURIER OPTICS; HARDWARE; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED IMAGING; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; RADIOMETERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCANNING; SCINTILLATION;

ATMOSPHERIC DEGRADATION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSMISSIONS; GAUSSIAN FIT;

OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

EID: 0742320805     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.000471     Document Type: Article

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