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The Delft Testbed Interferometer (DTI) will be presented. The main purpose for the DTI is to demonstrate the feasibility of homothetic mapping, both fixed and under scanning conditions. The driving design issues behind the DTI will be presented together with a list of experiments to be conducted with the DTI system in the field of wide field imaging.

We extend a recently introduced universal grayscale image quality index to a newly developed perceptually decorrelated color space. The resulting color image quality index quantifies the distortion of a processed color image relative to its original version. We evaluated the new color image quality metric through observer experiments in which subjects ranked images according to perceived distortion. The metric correlates strongly with human perception and can therefore be used to assess the performance of color image coding and compression schemes, color image enhancement algorithms, synthetic color image generators, and color image fusion schemes.

In opdracht van de Amerikaanse FAA/TSA werd een prototype testapparaat ontwikkeld waarmee de beeldkwaliteit van een rontgenbagagescanner kan worden bepaald

Momenteel worden thermische cameras ontwikkeld die gevoelig zijn in meerdere spectrale gebieden. Hiervoor bestaat nog geen maat die de beeldkwaliteit aangeeft. Wij stellen een uitbreiding van een bestaande sensorprestatiemaat voor.

The Triangle Orientation Discrimination (TOD) threshold is an alternative method to characterize electro-optical system performance. The method is based on an improved test pattern, a better-defined observer task and a solid psychophysical measurement procedure, and allows accurate and comparable results from different measuring teams. With the TOD methodology, accurate sensor performance measuring and Go-NoGo testing can be easily performed.

This paper presents the TNO share of the development of the HIFI Alignment Camera System (HACS), covering the opto-mechanical and thermal design. The HACS is an Optical Ground Support Equipment (OGSE) that is specifically developed to verify proper alignment of different modules of the HIFI instrument during on-ground thermal (vacuum) testing of the ESA Herschell spacecraft.

This paper describes one of the issues that are facing the remote sensing community in the not so far future; scientists ask for certain requirement that cannot be fulfilled either due to cost issues or technological issues. The paper starts with giving a short and quick historical overview of the development of spectrometer based remote sensing systems. Next, the likely end of the spectrometers will be explained, followed by a possible alternative.

A novel design for a earth observation combined spectrometer and polarimeter is presented. The goal of the instrument is to measure both intensity (radiance) and the state of polarization. Some backgrounds for this instrument are presented but the main part of this article will be on the optical design and the ideas behind it. © 2013 SPIE.

This document describes the calibration and performance of the SCIAMACHY instrument, to be launched on ESA-ENVISAT in 2000, after the main on-ground calibration and performance verification phases. A number of calibration and performance parameters will be discussed and results will be shown.

FIT3D is a Toolbox built for Matlab that aims at unifying and distributing a set of tools that will allow the researcher to obtain a complete 3D model from a set of calibrated images. In this paper we motivate and present the structure of the toolbox in a tutorial and example based approach. Given its flexibility and scope we believe that FIT3D represents an exciting opportunity for researchers that want to apply one particular method with real data without the need for extensive additional programming.

Target tracking and laser-based pointing from airborne platforms can be degraded significantly by the propagation environment around an airborne platform including zones of severe turbulence generated by rotor downwash and engine exhausts. This is the topic of the EDA study group ERG 108.019 on "Laser beam propagation and imaging through severe environments". This paper reports on experiments on optical propagation in the vicinity of a plume of a scaled down jet engine, performed by this co-operation group. The group is also working on methods for estimating the extent of the turbulence effects on the tracking and pointing performance under these conditions. © 2009 SPIE.

Voor een hypothetische warmtebeeldcamera werden 3 doelacquisitiemodellen gedraaid, waarbij de sensorparameters systematisch werden gevarieerd. De verschillen in uitkomst zijn zorgwekkend.

The results obtained with iTIRM during polishing are presented. It is shown that iTIRM unites the working ranges of several other techniques where iTIRM can be used during production where the others can not. The applicable range of iTIRM is shown to be at least 1 μm down to 0.1 nm rms.

This paper presents the performance of a TPD FO hydrophone with hydrostatic pressure compensation. In particularly a comparison with a conventional piezo hydrophone system is discussed. ©2003 Copyright SPIE

We applied a recently introduced universal image quality index Q that quantifies the distortion of a processed image relative to its original version, to assess the performance of different graylevel image fusion schemes. The method is as follows. First, we adopt an original test image as the reference image. Second, we produce several distorted versions of this reference image. The distortions in the individual images are complementary, meaning that the same distortion should not occur at the same location in all images (it should be absent in at least one image). Thus, the information content of the overall set of distorted images should equal the information content of the original test image. Third, we apply the image fusion process to the set of distorted images. Fourth, we quantify the similarity of the fused image to the reference image by computing the universal image quality index Q. The method can also be used to optimize image fusion schemes for different types of distortions, by maximizing Q through repeated application of steps two and three for different parameter settings of the fusion scheme.

We present a method to give single band intensified nightvision imagery a natural day-time color appearance. For input, the method requires a true color RGB source image and a grayscale nightvision target image. The source and target image are both transformed into a perceptually decorrelated color space. In this color space a best matching source pixel is determined for each pixel of the target image. The matching criterion uses the first order statistics of the luminance distribution in a small window around the source and target pixels. Once a best matching source pixel is found, its chromaticity values are assigned (transferred) to the target pixel while the original luminance value of the target pixel is retained. The only requirement of the method is that the compositions of the source and target scenes resemble each other.

We present a new measure called target identifiability, as an efficient alternative for measuring identification scores. Identifiability is operationally defined as the amount of blur required to reduce the target signature to its identification threshold. It can quickly be determined using a simple adjustment procedure. To validate the new measure, we measured the identifiability of targets in a set of real and simulated thermal images. The identification scores for these targets were available from a previous study. Our results show that identifiability indeed determines identification performance. Sufficient accuracy can be obtained with only a few (typically 2 or 3) trained observers. The associated measurement procedure is simple and requires only a limited amount of time.