ISSN:
1089-7623
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
Notes:
This article describes an imaging spectrometer developed for remote sensing applications. The instrument consists of an acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF), a high sensitive charged coupled device camera and optic lens. The selected AOTF was designed to have a large entrance aperture and to diffract light between 600 and 900 nm with a high spectral resolution. The signal was digitized by the camera and acquired with a developed WINDOWS executable software which drives the instrument. The spectrometer has been operated in a classical mode and in an imaging mode for its evaluation. In the imaging mode, images including different types of targets were acquired in reflection and transmission mode and were used to investigate image homogeneity, spatial resolution, chromatic and geometric aberrations, sensitivity and reliability. Spectra have been extracted from images and were successfully compared with spectra from the same sample area obtained with classical nonimaging spectrometers. This confirms the ability of this instrument to clear up many problems in surface analysis, particularly in the case of laboratory and field measurements used in remote sensing studies. © 1998 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1149025
