Abstract
A new relation for the signal-to-noise ratio is suggested to assess the efficiency of a thermal imaging system. The new criterion has been shown experimentally to satisfactorily correlate with the probability of identifying thermal anomalies, using the thermal imaging system.
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Translated by Vladimir A. Puchkin.
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Fedorovsky, A.D. The criterion for selecting a thermal imaging system designed to study sea surface. Phys. Oceanogr. 7, 311–313 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02509867
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