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- Title
Measuring the modulation transfer function of an imaging spectrometer with rooflines of opportunity.
- Authors
Paul W. Nugent; Joseph A. Shaw; Michael R. Kehoe; Casey W. Smith; Thomas S. Moon; Rand C. Swanson
- Abstract
Measuring the modulation transfer function (MTF) of digital imagers focused at or near infinity in laboratory or field settings presents difficulties because the optical path is longer than a typical laboratory. Also, digital imagers can be hindered by low-resolution detectors, resulting in the resolution of the optics surpassing that of the detector. We measure the MTF for a short-wave infrared hyperspectral imager developed by Resonon, Inc., of Bozeman, Montana, which exhibits both characteristics. These difficulties are overcome with a technique that uses images of building rooflines in an oversampled, tilted knife-edge-based MTF measurement. The dark rooftops backlit by a uniformly cloudy sky provide the high-contrast edges required to perform knife-edge MTF measurements. The MTF response is measured at five wavelengths across the imagers spectral band: 1085, 1178, 1292, 1548, and 1629 nm. The MTF also is observed at various distances from the roof to investigate performance change with distance. Optimum imaging is observed at a distance of 150 m, potentially a result of imperfect infinity focus and atmospheric turbulence. In a laboratory validation of the MTF algorithm using a monochrome visible imager, the roofline MTF results are similar to results from point-source and sine-card MTF measurements.
- Subjects
ELECTRONIC modulation; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTRUM analysis; DIGITAL images; OPTICAL resolution; OPTICAL engineering; DIGITAL image processing; OPTICAL instruments
- Publication
Optical Engineering, 2010, Vol 49, Issue 10, p103201
- ISSN
0091-3286
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1117/1.3497051