Radiation: measurement and detection |
Propagation of electromagnetic radiation. Light rays and wavefronts. Power flux. Radiometric magnitudes and units. Radiation sources: emission and reflection. Kirchoff's law. Lambertian sources. Atmospheric transmission. Photon detectors: CCD and CMOS sensors. Thermal detectors. Sources of noise. |
Sensors of image |
Optical systems for cameras. Transversal and angular field. Basic design of lenses: teleobjetive and wide-angular lenses. Image plane irradiancie. Horizontal and vertical view fields. Instantaneous field of view. Image systems for UAVs. Signal to noise ratio. Noise equivalente power, radiance and irradiancie. Noise equivalente differential reflectance. Spatial resolution: PSF and MTF. |
Multispectral image |
Multispectral and Hyperspectral systems. Spectral image. Image at the focal plane. Spectral systems for UAVs. Band filters. Prism separation. Interferometers. Fourier transform spectrometers. Diffraction grating spectrometers. |