360-deg. FLIR imager for networkable unattended ground sensor (UGS)

Alain Bergeron; Hubert Jerominek; Timothy D. Pope; Jerome Reecht; Simon Thibault

doi:10.1117/12.487137

18 September 2003 360-deg. FLIR imager for networkable unattended ground sensor (UGS)

Alain Bergeron, Hubert Jerominek, Timothy D. Pope, Jerome Reecht, Simon Thibault

Proceedings Volume 5090, Unattended Ground Sensor Technologies and Applications V; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.487137
Event: AeroSense 2003, 2003, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

An uncooled bolometric FLIR UGS camera is proposed that provides a full 360° FOV. This camera makes use of a 160x120 pixel bolometric FPA which is operated in random access readout mode and a ground-breaking optics forming image in all directions without moving parts, allowing such imaging with no increase in power consumption with respect to a camera with a unidirectional FOV. This novel IR imaging optics can be further equipped with a supplementary objective to provide passive observation of the sky or another fixed direction. The 360° FOV objective is expected to have f/1, to show an MTF value greater than 50% at the FPA Nyquist frequency, and to yield a thermal resolution better than 100 mK.

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Alain Bergeron, Hubert Jerominek, Timothy D. Pope, Jerome Reecht, and Simon Thibault "360-deg. FLIR imager for networkable unattended ground sensor (UGS)", Proc. SPIE 5090, Unattended Ground Sensor Technologies and Applications V, (18 September 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.487137

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