Infrared sensor modeling for human activity discrimination tasks in urban and maritime environments

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 3537-3556

  Deaver, Dawne M ^a   Flug, Eric ^a   Boettcher, Evelyn ^b   Smith, Stevie R ^a   Miller, Brian ^a  

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

^b DCS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION;

CALIBRATION FACTORS; CALIBRATION PARAMETERS; DISCRIMINATION TASKS; HUMAN-OBSERVER PERFORMANCE; INDUSTRY STANDARDS; MARITIME ENVIRONMENT; SENSOR PERFORMANCE; TARGET ACQUISITION;

INFRARED DETECTORS;

EID: 67749095897     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.003537     Document Type: Article

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