Expand this Topic clickable element to expand a topic
Skip to content
Optica Publishing Group

Degradation of near infrared and shortwave infrared imager performance due to atmospheric scattering of diffuse night illumination

Not Accessible

Your library or personal account may give you access

Abstract

On moonless nights, airglow is the primary source of natural ground illumination in the near infrared and shortwave infrared spectral bands. Therefore, night vision imagers operating in these spectral bands view targets that are diffusely illuminated. Aerosol scattering of diffuse airglow illumination causes atmospheric path radiance and that radiance causes increased imager noise. These phenomena and their quantification are described in this paper.

© 2013 Optical Society of America

Full Article  |  PDF Article
More Like This
Comparative long-time visible and shortwave infrared night illumination measurements

Jürgen Krieg and Uwe Adomeit
Appl. Opt. 58(36) 9876-9882 (2019)

Correction for reflected sky radiance in low-altitude coastal hyperspectral images

Minsu Kim, Joong Yong Park, Yuri Kopilevich, Grady Tuell, and William Philpot
Appl. Opt. 52(32) 7732-7744 (2013)

Atmospheric cloud algorithms for day/night whole sky imagers

Janet E. Shields, Art R. Burden, and Monette E. Karr
Appl. Opt. 58(26) 7050-7062 (2019)

Cited By

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Cited by links are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Figures (17)

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Figure files are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Tables (2)

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Article tables are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Equations (15)

You do not have subscription access to this journal. Equations are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an Optica member, or as an authorized user of your institution.

Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Login to access Optica Member Subscription

Select as filters


Select Topics Cancel
© Copyright 2024 | Optica Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved