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IMAGE INTENSIFYING CAMERA [2 records]

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Record 1 2020-12-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optical Instruments
CONT

Passive night vision devices work by sending light through a lens, an image intensifying tube, and another lens. Light enters through a lens called the objective lens, which is similar to a fine camera lens. The lens focuses the light into the image intensifier tube.

OBS

[Passive night vision devices] operate by amplifying the existing background light; the moon, stars, street lights, and so on, by several thousand times ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments d'optique

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-05-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optical Instruments
  • Search and Rescue (Paramilitary)
DEF

[A camera] useful in low-light-level (LLL) scenarios including military night-vision and civilian rescue operations.

OBS

These sensors utilize the available visible region photons and an amplification process to produce high-contrast imagery.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments d'optique
  • Recherche et sauvetage (Paramilitaire)
DEF

Caméra utilisée dans des conditions de faible éclairage, notamment par les forces armées pour faciliter la vision nocturne et pour des opérations de sauvetage civiles.

Key term(s)
  • caméra munie d'un intensificateur d'image

Spanish

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