Quantitative Image Analysis Of UV Rocket Plumes And Laboratory Images

Donald F. Collins

doi:10.1117/12.946892

16 August 1988 Quantitative Image Analysis Of UV Rocket Plumes And Laboratory Images

Donald F. Collins

Proceedings Volume 0932, Ultraviolet Technology II; (1988) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.946892
Event: 1988 Technical Symposium on Optics, Electro-Optics, and Sensors, 1988, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Rocket plume images photographed with the AFGL UV imager on a video system have been analyzed with a video digitizer and an MS-DOS* computer. The analysis consists of distortion-free rotation of the images to align the plume axis with the horizontal pixel direction, smoothing the images with appropriate image filters, plotting contours and brightness slices of the images, measuring the size from knowledge of the rocket's ephemeris, and correcting for atmospheric absorption. Similar analysis techniques will be presented for laboratory images showing the diffusion of an optically absorbing gas in air.

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Donald F. Collins "Quantitative Image Analysis Of UV Rocket Plumes And Laboratory Images", Proc. SPIE 0932, Ultraviolet Technology II, (16 August 1988); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.946892

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