Standoff hyperspectral imaging of explosives residues using broadly tunable external cavity quantum cascade laser illumination

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7665, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Bernacki, Bruce E ^a   Phillips, Mark C ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

explosives detection; external cavity tunable laser; hyperspectral imaging; quantum cascade laser

Indexed keywords

ANTI-REFLECTION; DETECTION OF EXPLOSIVES; DRIVE SIGNAL; DUTY CYCLES; EXTERNAL CAVITY; EXTERNAL CAVITY TUNABLE LASER; HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGES; HYPERCUBE; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING; IDENTIFICATION APPROACH; ILLUMINATION LASERS; IMAGE DATA; LINEAR SPECTRAL UNMIXING; MATCHED FILTERING; MIXTURE TUNED MATCHED FILTERING; MOLECULAR FINGERPRINT; QUANTUM CASCADES; REPETITION RATE; SPECTRAL FEATURE FITTING; SPECTRAL IMAGES; TARGET SURFACE; TUNING RANGES; UNCOOLED MICROBOLOMETERS; WAVE NUMBERS; WAVELENGTH BAND; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; EXPLOSIVES; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECORDING; LASER TUNING; LASERS; MATCHED FILTERS; MIXTURES; NITRATION; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; RADIOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING;

EXPLOSIVES DETECTION;

EID: 77955916554     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.849543     Document Type: Conference Paper

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