Suite of proposed imaging performance metrics and test methods for fire service thermal imaging cameras

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6941, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Amon, Francine ^a   Lock, Andrew ^a   Bryner, Nelson ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast; First responder; Infrared camera; Nonuniformity; Performance evaluation; Spatial resolution; Temperature range; Thermal imager; Thermal sensitivity

Indexed keywords

FIRE PROTECTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECOGNITION; INFRARED IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; STANDARDS;

FIRST RESPONDER; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THERMAL SENSITIVITY;

CAMERAS;

EID: 44349083081     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.778368     Document Type: Conference Paper

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