Target Signature

Target Signature

Book: Common Sense Approach to Thermal Imaging

Author(s): Gerald C. Holst

Published: 2000

https://doi.org/10.1117/3.2588945.ch11

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Abstract

A target is an object that is to be detected, located, recognized, or identified. Target signatures are the spatial (size), spectral (wave band), and intensity (temperature) features that distinguish the target from the background. Most imaging system applications exploit intensity differences. Signatures are the characteristic patterns that the thermographer must learn to identify.