New approach to thermal drift correction in microbolometer thermal cameras

Quantitative InfraRed Thermography Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 184-195

  Olbrycht, Robert ^a   Więcek, Bogusław ^a  

^a LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

non uniformity correction; NUC; offset; thermal drift

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETERS; INFRARED DEVICES; TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

MICROBOLOMETER; NEW APPROACHES; NONUNIFORMITY CORRECTION; OFFSET; SEMI-TRANSPARENT; THERMAL CAMERA; THERMAL DRIFTS; UNCOOLED;

CAMERAS;

EID: 84942990062     PISSN: 17686733     EISSN: 21167176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17686733.2015.1055675     Document Type: Article

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