SIELETERS, an airborne infrared dual-band spectro-imaging system for measurement of scene spectral signatures

Christophe Coudrain, Sylvie Bernhardt, Marcel Caës, Roland Domel, Yann Ferrec, Rémi Gouyon, Didier Henry, Marc Jacquart, Alain Kattnig, Philippe Perrault,

Optics Express · 2015 · 44 citations · 14 references

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More and more, hyperspectral images are envisaged to improve the aerial reconnaissance capability of airborne systems, both for civilian and military applications. To confirm the hopes put in this new way of imaging a scene, it is necessary to develop airborne systems allowing the measurement of the spectral signatures of objects of interest in real conditions, with high spectral and spatial resolutions. The purpose of this paper is to present the design and the first in-flight results of the dual-band infrared spectro-imaging system called Sieleters. This system has demonstrated simultaneously a ground sampling distance of 0.5m, associated with a spectral resolution of 11 cm(-1) for the Mid-Wave InfraRed (MWIR) and 5 cm(-1) for the Long-Wave InfraRed (LWIR).

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