PICASSO - An end-to-end Image Simulation tool for space and airborne imaging systems: II. Extension to the Thermal Infrared - Equations and methods

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8158, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Cota, Steve A ^a   Lomheim, Terrence S ^a   Florio, Christopher J ^a   Harbold, Jeffrey M ^a   Muto, B Michael ^a   Schoolar, Richard B ^a   Wintz, Daniel T ^a   Kellerb, Robert A ^a  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Image simulation; Remote sensing; System engineering

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE CORPORATIONS; AIRBORNE IMAGING; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN LEVELS; IMAGE CHAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE SIMULATIONS; INTEGRAL PART; MODEL SPACES; MODELING SYSTEMS; NEAR INFRARED; PARAMETERIZED; SIMULATION SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING PROCESS; THERMAL INFRARED; THERMAL INFRARED REMOTE SENSING; VERIFICATION PROCESS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETRY; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

SPACE OPTICS;

EID: 80053421052     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.892808     Document Type: Conference Paper

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