Over at Night Flight Concepts, they are more interested in the adaptation of complementary metal–oxide– megapixel light detectors for NVG usage. While this terminology is certainly a mouthful—and even in widespread use for advanced CMOS detectors could soon also revolutionize NVIS technology by increasing resolution and accuracy.
“When you combine CMOS with radiometer) technology, you can system that can capture images in an electronic format, which can then be digitally combined and provide yet further resolving information to the user,” Aldous explains. “In addition, when you have a digital electronic image, you could share this information in real time to a command center for information gathering and observation. The end result would be more information that could be shared with more people.”
Such a sensor has already been Innovations (SPI). Known as the CMOS Night Vision Sensor HFiS X26, the company claims the operational CMOS camera that exceeds night vision performance criteria. SPI has installed this sensor the traditional 40 degrees afforded color companion X27, has yet to
In the more immediate future, ASU’s Estrera sees “more resolution and increased contrast though smaller microchannel plate (MCP) pores” on a smaller, more information intensive basis. “Right now the
micron diameter pores that produce limiting resolution ANVIS goggle,” he says. “I see it getting smaller. In Glesener to develop a 2 micron achieved greater than 100 lp/mm.”
With this reduction in pore size, the result is an ANVIS goggle with greater resolution and richer contrast that will provide NVG wearers with more detailed and informative images. “This
improvement will result in a
better
image for safer and more critical environments,” says Estrera.
Looking further ahead, NFC’s Aldous approaches may some day provide NVG users with far more accurate with which to work. “We know that plants are light sensitive, and indeed level
detection to control their physical processes,” he says. “Imagine if this same form of light sensitivity could be harnessed to seeing in could get beyond the current NVG form of NVIS that would be far more informative to its users.”
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