literature review on night vision technology

Review of night vision technology

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Night vision based on technology of image intensifier tubes is the oldest electro-optical surveillance technology. However, it receives much less attention from international scientific community than thermal imagers or visible/NIR imagers due to series of reasons. This paper presents a review of a modern night vision technology and can help readers to understand sophisticated situation on the international night vision market.

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complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (a technology that uses pairs of p -type and n -type metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors for constructing image sensors

cathode ray tube (a vacuum tube containing an electron gun and a phosphor screen used to generate images)

electron multiplying charge coupled device

foot candela

foot lambert

enhanced night vision goggles

electron bombarded active pixel sensor

figure of merit

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head-up display

intensified CCD (a technology that uses imaging modules achieved by combing image intensifier tube with CCD sensor)

image intensifier tube

line pair per millimeter

line per miliradian

micro channel plate

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near infrared

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Review of night vision metrology

A review of night vision metrology is presented in this paper. A set of reasons that create a rather chaotic metrologic situation on night vision market is presented. It is shown that there has been made a little progress in night vision metrology during last decades in spite of a big progress in night vision technology at the same period of time. It is concluded that such a big discrep- ancy between metrology development level and technology development can be an obstacle in the further development of night vision technology.

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