Operational issues for passive millimeter-wave imaging systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3064, Issue , 1997, Pages 23-33

  Gleed, David G ^a   Appleby, Roger ^a   Salmon, Neil A ^a   Price, Sean ^a   Sinclair, Gordon N ^a   Anderton, Rupert N ^a   Borrill, Jonathan R ^a   Wasley, Matthew R M ^a   Lettington, Alan H ^b  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheric transmission; Image processing; Infrared; Millimetre wave imaging; Resolution

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SENSORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOLID STATE DEVICES;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSMISSION; DEFENCE EVALUATION AND RESEARCH AGENCY (DERA); HIGH-QUALITY IMAGING; INFRARED; MILLIMETRE WAVE IMAGING; MM WAVES; OPERATIONAL ISSUES; PASSIVE MILLIMETER WAVE; RESOLUTION; SOLID STATES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION (SR); WAVE IMAGING;

MILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 24344473736     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.277088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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