Non-uniformity correction and bad pixel replacement on LWIR and MWIR images

Saudi International Electronics, Communications and Photonics Conference 2011, SIECPC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mudau, Azwitamisi E ^a   Willers, Cornelius J ^a   Griffith, Derek ^a   Le Roux, Francois P J ^a  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bad Pixel Replacement; Focal plane array; Non uniformity Correction

Indexed keywords

BAD-PIXEL REPLACEMENT; CURRENT GENERATION; FIXED PATTERN NOISE; FOCAL PLANE; INFRA-RED CAMERAS; INFRARED FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; INFRARED IMAGES; LONG WAVES; MEDIUM WAVE; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ALGORITHM; NON-UNIFORMITY CORRECTION; TWO-POINT;

FOCUSING; INFRARED IMAGING; INFRARED RADIATION; PHOTONICS;

PIXELS;

EID: 79959948199     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIECPC.2011.5876937     Document Type: Conference Paper

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