Experimental results from an airborne static Fourier transform imaging spectrometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 30, 2011, Pages 5894-5904

  Ferrec, Yann ^a   Taboury, Jean ^b   Sauer, Hervé ^b   Chavel, Pierre ^b   Fournet, Pierre ^b   Coudrain, Christophe ^a   Deschamps, Joël ^a   Primot, Jérôme ^a  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICHELSON INTERFEROMETERS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROSCOPY;

AIRBORNE IMAGES; FOURIER TRANSFORM IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; HIGH COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; HYPERSPECTRAL DATA; IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; PARASITIC IMAGES; PROCESSING CHAIN; SPECTRAL IMAGES;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 80055014547     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.005894     Document Type: Review

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