Polarization vision: A door to an unseen world

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3110, Issue , 1997, Pages 608-614

  Shashar, Nadav ^a  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Plankton; Polarization sensitivity; Polarized light; Target detection; Vision

Indexed keywords

FISH; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OCEAN HABITATS; TARGET DRONES; TARGETS;

BACKGROUND LIGHTS; DETECTION RANGES; IMAGING POLARIZERS; IN FIELDS; LINEAR POLARIZATIONS; LINEARLY POLARIZED LIGHTS; MARINE ANIMALS; OCEANIC ENVIRONMENTS; PARTIAL POLARIZATIONS; PLANKTON; POLARIZATION PATTERNS; POLARIZATION SENSITIVITY; POLARIZATION VISIONS; POLARIZED LIGHT; POLARIZING FILTERS; SINGLE PIXELS; TARGET DETECTION; TWISTED NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 60849130123     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.281335     Document Type: Conference Paper

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