Solar tower experiments for radiometric calibration and validation of infrared imaging assets and analysis tools for entry aero-heating measurements

40th AIAA Thermophysics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Splinter, Scott C ^a,g   Daryabeigi, Kamran ^a,g   Horvath, Thomas J ^a,h   Mercer, C David ^b   Ghanbari, Cheryl M ^c   Ross, Martin N ^d   Tietjen, Alan ^e   Schwartz, Richard J ^f  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Aerospace Computing Inc   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^e KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^f NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^g Structural Mechanics and Concepts Br   (United States)

^h Aerothermodynamics Branch   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CALIBRATION; NASA; ORBITS; RADIOMETRY; SPACE SHUTTLES; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TESTING; THERMOCOUPLES; TOWERS;

AIRBORNE INFRARED IMAGING; BOUNDARY LAYER TRANSITIONS; CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; NON-UNIFORM ELEVATED TEMPERATURES; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES; SPACE SHUTTLE ORBITER; SURFACE TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

EID: 78049389490     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2008-4025     Document Type: Conference Paper

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