Correcting for focal-plane-array temperature dependence in microbolometer infrared cameras lacking thermal stabilization

PW Nugent, JA Shaw, NJ Pust - Optical Engineering, 2013 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Advances in microbolometer detectors have led to the development of infrared cameras that
operate without active temperature stabilization. The response of these cameras varies with …

Radiometric calibration of infrared imagers using an internal shutter as an equivalent external blackbody

PW Nugent, JA Shaw, NJ Pust - Optical Engineering, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Advances in microbolometer long-wave infrared (LWIR) detectors have led to the common
use of infrared cameras that operate without active temperature stabilization, but the …

Calibration of uncooled LWIR microbolometer imagers to enable long-term field deployment

PW Nugent, JA Shaw - Infrared Imaging Systems: Design …, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Radiometric calibration methods are described that enable long-term deployment of
uncooled microbolometer infrared imagers without on-board calibration sources. These …

Calibration of uncooled thermal infrared cameras

H Budzier, G Gerlach - Journal of Sensors and Sensor Systems, 2015 - jsss.copernicus.org
The calibration of uncooled thermal infrared (IR) cameras to absolute temperature
measurement is a time-consuming, complicated process that significantly influences the cost …

Shutter-less calibration of uncooled infrared cameras

A Tempelhahn, H Budzier, V Krause… - Journal of Sensors …, 2016 - jsss.copernicus.org
Infrared (IR) cameras based on microbolometer focal plane arrays (FPAs) are the most
widely used cameras in thermography. New fields of applications like handheld devices and …

A mask-based approach for the geometric calibration of thermal-infrared cameras

S Vidas, R Lakemond, S Denman… - IEEE Transactions …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate and efficient thermal-infrared (IR) camera calibration is important for advancing
computer vision research within the thermal modality. This paper presents an approach for …

Shutterless solution for simultaneous focal plane array temperature estimation and nonuniformity correction in uncooled long-wave infrared camera

Y Cao, CL Tisse - Applied optics, 2013 - opg.optica.org
In uncooled long-wave infrared (LWIR) microbolometer imaging systems, temperature
fluctuations of the focal plane array (FPA) result in thermal drift and spatial nonuniformity. In …

320x240 uncooled microbolometer 2D array for radiometric and process control applications

B Fieque, A Crastes, JL Tissot… - Detectors and …, 2004 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Uncooled infrared focal plane arrays are being developed for a wide range of thermal
imaging applications. Developments are focused on the improvement of their sensitivity …

Microbolometer uncooled infrared camera with 20-mK NETD

WA Radford, DF Murphy, A Finch… - … Detectors and Focal …, 1998 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Raytheon Sensors and Communications Systems has developed a prototype infrared
imaging rifle-sight using an uncooled, microbolometer FPA. The Longwavelength Staring …

320x240 silicon microbolometer uncooled IR FPAs with on-chip offset correction

WA Radford, DF Murphy, M Ray… - … Detectors and Focal …, 1996 - spiedigitallibrary.org
SBRC has developed a high-quality 320 X 240 room-temperature infrared FPA that operates
in the 8-14 micrometers spectral band. The FPA is based upon the silicon microbolometer …