Range gated active night vision system for automobiles

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 28, 2006, Pages 7248-7254

  David, Ofer ^a,b   Kopeika, Norman S ^a   Weizer, Boaz ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Elbit Systems   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING; PATTERN MATCHING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

AUTOMOTIVE SAFETY; BACKSCATTER REDUCTION; GATED IMAGING PRINCIPLES;

VISION;

EID: 33750854805     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.007248     Document Type: Article

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