Polarization Effects on Infrared Target Contrast

• Main Author: Pontes, Marcos C.
• Other Authors: NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1998
• Subjects: Photography; Infrared Detection and Detectors; *POLARIZATION; *INFRARED RADIATION; TARGET SIGNATURES; THESES; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; ASPECT ANGLE; SAN DIEGO BAY; PHOTOGRAPHIC CONTRAST; *THERMAL IMAGING; TARGET CONTRAST; Loma; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA353099; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA353099

An analysis has been carried out of a data base of polarized long wave infrared images of the instrumented Research Vessel POINT SUR recorded over a period of two days during the EOPACE measurements series in San Diego Bay in 1996. The measurements were made from a land site on Point Loma with an AG...