Automatic gain control for image-intensified camera

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1057-1064

  Fowler, Kim R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CAMERAS; GAIN CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; SAMPLED DATA CONTROL SYSTEMS; STABILITY; THEOREM PROVING;

AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL; GAIN STABILITY; IMAGE INTENSIFICATION; IMAGE INTENSIFIED CAMERA; NONLINEAR SAMPLED DATA;

GAIN MEASUREMENT;

EID: 4043120999     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2004.831494     Document Type: Article

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