List of tests to qualify a detector or camera:
Detector and radiometric tests
- SiTF (Signal Tranfer Function)
- Noise
- TN (Temporal Noise)
- FPN (Fixed Pattern Noise)
- 3D noise
- Temporal NPSD and Spatial NPSD (Noise Power Spectral Density)
- NETD (Noise Equivalent Temperature Difference)
- NEP/NEI/NER (Power, irradiance, Radiance)
- NUC (Non Uniformity Correction)
- BP (Bad Pixels)
Optics quality tests
- LSF/MTF (Line Spread Function / Modulation Transfer Function)
- FOV (Field Of View)
- Distortion
- MRTD (Minimum Resolvable Temperature Difference), according STANAG no. 4349:1995
- DRI ranges (Detection, Recognition and Identification ranges), according STANAG no. 4347:1995