Abstract

Problems arise when data, obtained by radiometric scanners, are being interpreted. First, the effect of detector size and optical aberrations have to be taken into account; second, the nonlinearity of the electronic amplifiers; third, spectral effects, starting with the spectral emission of the object and further dealing with the spectral transmission of the atmosphere and the spectral sensitivity of the scanner. In this paper these three complications are discussed in detail, and an example is given for the case of a widely used radiometric scanner: the AGA Thermovision 680.

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