Processing near-infrared imagery of hypersonic space shuttle reentries

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7661, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Spisz, Thomas S ^a   Taylor, Jeff C ^a   Gibson, David M ^a   Osei Wusu, Kwame ^a   Horvath, Thomas J ^b   Zalameda, Joseph N ^b   Tomek, Deborah M ^b   Tietjen, Alan B ^c   Tack, Steve ^d   Schwartz, Richard J ^e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^d NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^e NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

hypersonic space Shuttle reentry; HYTHIRM; image processing; image registration; near infrared imagery

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR RATE; ATLANTIS; CALIBRATION DATA; CIRRUS CLOUDS; DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYPERSONIC SPACE SHUTTLE REENTRY; HYTHIRM; IMAGE DATA COLLECTION; IMAGE FRAMES; INFRARED MEASUREMENTS; INTENSITY IMAGES; INTENSITY VARIATIONS; NEAR INFRARED; ORION AIRCRAFT; QUALITY IMAGE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SINGLE IMAGES; SKY BACKGROUND; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; US NAVY; WINDWARD SURFACE;

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; CLOUDS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED DEVICES; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; NASA; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; REENTRY; SENSORS; SPACE SHUTTLES; THERMOCOUPLES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 79953694503     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.849741     Document Type: Conference Paper

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