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Evaluation of a Portable Hyperspectral Imager for Medical Imaging Applications

October 2, 2007
Author(s)
David W. Allen, Maritoni A. Litorja, Steven W. Brown, Joseph P. Rice, Yuqin Zong
Portable hyperspectral imagers are becoming commonly available as a commercial product. A liquid crystal tunable filter based CCD imager was evaluated and characterized for spectral stray light using a tunable laser facility. The hyperspectral imager is

System-Level Pre-Launch Calibration of Onboard Solar Diffusers

September 26, 2007
Author(s)
R Barnes, Steven W. Brown, Keith R. Lykke, Gerald T. Fraser, James J. Butler
Onboard diffuse reflecting plaques are carried to orbit as radiometric reference standards for Earth-observing satellite instruments. For many instruments the reflectance properties of the plaque are characterized independent of the instrument, and the

A Hyperspectral Image Projector for Hyperspectral Imagers

September 3, 2007
Author(s)
Joseph P. Rice, Steven W. Brown, Jorge E. Neira, Robert R. Bousquet
We have developed and demonstrated a Hyperspectral Image Projector (HIP) intended for system-level validation testing of hyperspectral imagers, including the instrument and any associated spectral unmixing algorithms. HIP, based on the same digital

Absolute Flux Calibrations of Stars

August 30, 2007
Author(s)
Gerald T. Fraser, Steven W. Brown, Howard W. Yoon, Bettye C. Johnson, Keith R. Lykke
Absolute stellar photometry is based on 1970s terrestrial measurements of the star Vega referenced against the Cu fixed-point blackbody. Significant advances in absolute radiometry have been made in the last 30 years that offer the potential to improve

Simultaneous Measurement of Up-Welling Spectral Radiance Using a Fiber-Coupled CCD Spectrograph

August 26, 2007
Author(s)
M Yarbrough, S Flora, M Feinholz, Terrance Houlihan, Yong S. Kim, Steven W. Brown, B. Carol Johnson, Kenneth Voss, Dennis Clark
Determination of the water-leaving spectral radiance using in-water instrumentation requires measurements of the up-welling spectral radiance (Lu) at several depths. If these measurements are separated in time, changes in the measurement conditions result

Correction of Stray Light In Spectroradiometers and Imaging Instruments

July 4, 2007
Author(s)
Yuqin Zong, Steven W. Brown, Keith R. Lykke, Yoshihiro Ohno
Measurement errors from stray light, spectral or spatial, are inevitable and are often the dominant source of error in spectroradiometers and imaging radiometers/photometers. We have developed a simple matrix method for correcting spatial stray light in

Thermodynamic-Temperature Determinations of the Ag and Au Freezing Temperatures Using a Detector-Based Radiation Thermometer

May 20, 2007
Author(s)
Howard W. Yoon, David W. Allen, Charles E. Gibson, Maritoni A. Litorja, Robert D. Saunders, Steven W. Brown, George P. Eppeldauer, Keith R. Lykke
We describe the development of a radiation thermometer calibrated for spectral radiance responsivity using cryogenic, electrical-substitution radiometry to determine the thermodynamic temperatures of the Ag- and Au-freezing temperatures. The absolute

Development of Surgical Lighting for Enhanced Color Contrast

May 14, 2007
Author(s)
Maritoni A. Litorja, Steven W. Brown, Maria E. Nadal, David W. Allen, Alexander Gorbach
The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Institutes of Health have started a collaborative study on the development of lighting that will provide enhanced, specific to various tissues, contrast with respect to its surroundings

Compact Anamorphic Imaging Spectrometer

February 9, 2007
Author(s)
P Maciejewski, K Barnard, Rand Swanson, Michael Kehoe, C Smith, Thomas Moon, Robert R. Bousquet, Steven W. Brown, Keith R. Lykke
Deployment of compact hyperspectral imaging sensors on small UAVs has the potential of providing a cost-effective solution for rapid-response target detection and cueing based on time-critical spectral information collected at low altitudes. To address

Hyperspectral Image Projector for Advanced Sensor Characterization

December 4, 2006
Author(s)
Steven W. Brown, Joseph P. Rice, Jorge E. Neira, Bettye C. Johnson
In this work, we describe radiometric platforms able to produce realistic spectral distributions and spatial scenes for the development of application-specific metrics to quantify the performance of sensors and systems. Using these platforms, sensor and

Development of Hyperspectral Image Projectors

November 1, 2006
Author(s)
Joseph P. Rice, Steven W. Brown, Jorge E. Neira
We present design concepts for calibrated hyperspectral image projectors (HIP) and related sources intended for system-level testing of instruments ranging from complex hyperspectral or multispectral imagers to simple filter radiometers. HIP, based on the
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