Test Operations Procedure (TOP) 6-3-040. Thermal Imaging Systems

Abstract

This TOP describes the instrumentation and procedures for measuring the optical and electro-optical characteristics of military thermal imaging systems. This TOP is intended to cover both scanning and staring focal plane array military thermal imagers operating in the mid-wave infrared (3-5 micron waveband) and long-wave infrared (8-14 micron waveband) spectral regions. Applications of this TOP are subject to test equipment variations dependent upon the specific type of thermal imager. Collimator efficiencies are usually given or measured as radiometric quantities, but are typically implemented as a multiplying factor of the source temperature.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 20, 2009
Accession Number
ADA504877

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Sets
  • Detectors
  • Digital Data
  • Digital Video
  • Dynamic Range
  • Field Tests
  • Frequency
  • Instrumentation
  • Measurement
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Operational Readiness
  • Optical Instruments
  • Optics
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.