Active millimeter-wave video rate imaging with a staring 120-element microbolometer array

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5410, Issue , 2004, Pages 195-201

  Luukanen, A ^a,b   Miller, A J ^a   Grossman, E N ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Array; Bolometer; Concealed weapons; Imaging; Millimeter wave; Terahertz

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; BOLOMETERS; DETECTORS; IMAGE SENSORS; RADAR IMAGING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ARRAY; CONCEALED WEAPONS; MICROBOLOMETER; MILLIMETER WAVE IMAGING; TERHERTZ;

MILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 8844260500     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.543488     Document Type: Conference Paper

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