Characteristics of infrared imaging systems that benefit from superresolution reconstruction

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 4594-4603

  Kraeels, Keith ^a   Driggers, Ronald G ^b   Jacobs, Eddie ^b   Burks, Stephen ^b   Young, Susan ^c  

^a OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH   (United States)

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

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; SAMPLING; SENSORS;

FOCAL PLANE SPACE; SUPERRESOLUTION ALGORITHMS;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 34548591719     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.004594     Document Type: Article

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